Meet the Author: James Forman, Jr.
Author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Thursday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Main Library, DiMattia Building

Introduction by CT State Superior Court Presiding Judge Gary White.

Meet James Forman, Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.

Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics, and their impact on people of color, are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done.

In Locking Up Our Own, Yale legal scholar and former Washington D.C. public defender James Forman, Jr. asks how a majority-black jurisdiction ended up incarcerating so many of its own. Drawing on his experience, Forman writes with compassion about the young men and women he defended and officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. An original view of our justice system and a moving portrait of the human beings caught up in it.

Refreshments served. Book sale and signing.

Generously supported by the Friends of The Ferguson Library and co-sponsored by DOMUS