Register for 2021 Menard Family Lecture on Drug Policy and Criminal Justice and other great drug sentencing events
In this post last week, I noted the exciting event taking place on October 7-8 titled "Understanding Drug Sentencing and its Contributions to Mass Punishment." In addition to again highlighting the full symposium (and urging everyone to register for all the panels), I wanted to be sure to give some extra attention to the "Inaugural 2021 Menard Family Lecture on Drug Policy and Criminal Justice" scheduled for Thursday, October 7 from 12:30-2pm EDT. Here again is the summary description of a discussion that I will have the honor of moderating (along with this registration link):
The Drug Enforcement and Policy Center is pleased to invite you to the Inaugural 2021 Menard Family Lecture on Drug Policy and Criminal Justice featuring Eric H. Holder, Jr., former Attorney General of the United States, and Piper Kerman, social justice advocate and author of “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” with special guests Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and Chief U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley for the Southern District of Ohio.
In addition, I wanted also to note an exciting new addition to the event schedule with a film screening and discussion of the film Commuted involving the film's director, Nialah Jefferson, and its main protagonist, Danielle Metz. Here is a description of the film from its website:
In 1993, Danielle Metz was a twenty-six year old mother with two small children, who was labeled a drug kingpin by the US Government as a part of her husband’s drug ring. She was sentenced to triple life plus twenty years for nonviolent drug offenses, and sent more than two thousand miles from her family in New Orleans to serve our the remainder of her life in California at the Dublin Federal Correctional Institute. After serving twenty-three years in prison, Danielle’s sentence was commuted in 2016 by the Obama Administration as a part of the Clemency Initiative to address historically unfair sentencing practices during the “war on drugs.” Now back home, Danielle is trying to start life over again in her fifties while working to help other women avoid her fate. But perhaps Danielle’s toughest challenge of all is living the dream that kept her going while in prison — that of being a united family again with her two children.
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