Monday, January 16, 2006
Webcast: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter at Berkman
Professor Charles Nesson writes:
On Thursday, January 19, [at 7:30 PM Boston time] Kevin Wallen, Rubin *Hurricane* Carter and Courtney Kazembe will be speaking at Harvard Law School about a restorative justice initiative in the prisons in Jamaica. They are working with the government of Jamaica to create a program of restorative justice that addresses the problems that often arises when inmates are paroled. Where old enmities are unresolved, new violence often breaks out when the parolee gets home. The program seeks to constructively bring unresolved enmities to the surface and deal with them before parole. Kevin Wallen heads this project and Courtney Kazembe represents a very controversial inmate who is their test case. Kevin Wallen also works with inmates on a program of personal restoration and rehabilitation for inmates that has seen some remarkable success, even with individuals who will never be paroled. Much of this process started when Hurricane Carter visited Jamaica and asked to visit the prisons to speak to inmates.The webcast will be findable from here or here. I'm watching it!
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