Advocating for Children & Families in the Era of Mass Incarceration

In this session of our 2022 Racial Justice Training Series and Book Club, Prof. Kristin Henning and Mary Ann Scali, Executive Director of the Gault Center, were joined by Jeannette Bocanegra, Executive Director of Justice for Families (J4F), and Prof. Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology and Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies.

This session was built around Chapter 11, Things Fall Apart: Black Families in an Era of Mass Incarceration, of Prof. Henning’s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.