Please join the Delaware Center for Justice and our guest speakers, including Mark Mauer and Alec Karakatsanis, for a one-day conference that will take each of us outside of our comfort zones in order to address what changes really need to occur in order to reduce mass incarceration in our state and in our country.

Breakfast and lunch will be included in the $10 registration fee.

We expect the event to sell out, so pre-registration is required using the link below.

We hope to see you on October 23rd at this event that is sure to be one to remember.

Registration is closed as of 10/20/15 because we have reached capacity. To be added to the waiting list, please email center@dcjustice.org.

About Our Speakers:

Alec Karakatsanis, co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law, graduated from Yale College in 2005 with a degree in Ethics, Politics, & Economics and Harvard Law School in 2008, where he was a Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review. Through class action challenges, Equal Justice Under Law challenges wealth-based pretrial detention practices and has achieved reform, working with cities to change their practices and to release arrestees without requiring cash bail.  Equal Justice Under Law has also filed class action suits on behalf of the poor in Ferguson and Jennings, MO to challenge the practice by which poor people unable to pay costly motor vehicle fines are jailed for their failure to pay.  Before co-founding Equal Justice Under Law, Alec was an attorney with the Special Litigation Division of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he litigated complex criminal law issues and bigger-picture civil rights cases in federal and D.C. trial and appellate courts. Read more about Alec here. 

Marc Mauer, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project, is one of the country’s leading experts on sentencing policy, race and the criminal justice system.  He has directed programs on criminal justice policy reform for 30 years, and is the author of some of the most widely-cited reports and publications in the field.  The Atlantic magazine has described him as a scholar who has “reframed how Americans view crime, race, and poverty in the public sphere.” His 1995 report on racial disparity and the criminal justice system led the New York Times to editorialize that the report “should set off alarm bells from the White House to city halls – and help reverse the notion that we can incarcerate our way out of fundamental social problems.” Read more about Marc here.