Our Monday night kick off of our Criminal Justice Reform series was a resounding success.
It’s criminal how we make people criminals!
In the first part of a two-part program on criminal justice reform in New Hampshire, the Upper Valley Democrats sponsored a screening of the locally produced documentary film It’s Criminal in the spacious, high-tech auditorium at Mascoma Valley Regional High School. The hard-hitting, heart-rending portrayal of the lives of women incarcerated in the Sullivan County NH Department of Corrections was produced by local director Signe Taylor in collaboration with Dartmouth College students enrolled in a criminal justice course taught by Dartmouth Professor Ivy Schweitzer. After the screening of the film, a question-and-answer session led by a three-woman panel (the film’s director, Signe Taylor (R); the Dartmouth professor, Ivy Schweitzer (L); and Charlotte, one of the former female prisoners who appeared in the film) provided more insight into their experiences while making the film and how those experiences changed the lives of both the Dartmouth students and the incarcerated women.
It’s Criminal highlights the economic and social inequities that divide and define the United States and offers a vision of how disparate communities can communicate.
Follow this link to join a campaign for equal justice or learn more about incarceration issues:
https://www.itiscriminal.com/action
The second part of the UVDems’ program on criminal justice reform will take place on February 24 in Hanover’s Recreation Community Center. State Senator Dan Feltes, an active proponent for prison reform and a candidate for governor of New Hampshire, will lead a discussion with a panel that includes Jeanne Hruska, the political director for the ACLU-NH. The focus of their presentation will be the steps being taken in New Hampshire to address what many see as a broken prison and criminal justice system.
ALERT! Gov. Deval Patrick will be in Hanover on Monday, Feb 3rd, Andrew Yang in Lebanon on Feb 4th, a Youth Climate Clean Energy Town hall with presidential candidates on Feb 5th, and there will be two CNN town halls on Feb 5th and 6th! Details below.
And the NH Primary on Feb 11th!
Get ready…
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- February 3, Dartmouth College Conversation with Gov. Deval Patrick
- February 4, Lebanon Town Hall with Andrew Yang;
- February 5, Youth Climate Clean Energy and Town Hall with Presidential Candidates, Concord.
- February 5 & February 6, CNN is hosting back-to-back Democratic presidential town halls;
- February 24, Criminal Justice Reform: What’s Next in New Hampshire?;
- March 28, Step Forward.