Legal Experts and Community Leaders to Oppose Costly ‘Three Strikes Bill’ that will Cost Taxpayers Millions

Tuesday Jan. 24th
11:00 AM Press Conference
at MA State House in Gardner Auditorium

Speakers:

• Kathleen Dennehy, former commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction
• Atty. Barbara Dougan, Massachusetts Project Director of Families Against Mandatory Minimums
• Prof. Charles Ogletree, director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
• Rev. Eugene Rivers, founder and president of the Ella J. Baker House
• Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Massachusetts
• Atty. Max Stern, partner and criminal defense lawyer, Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin LLP
• Leslie Walker, executive director, Prisoners Legal Services

for more info:
http://blackstonian.com/news/2012/01/3-strikes-press-conference-state-ho...

Fri. Jan. 27th
"The high costs of prospective 3 Strikes Law"
7 – 9:00 PM Jamaica Plain Forum
at First Church (at the Monument, near South/Centre Street)
6 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain

Moderated by: Ben Thompson, Exec. Director, Criminal Justice Policy Coalition
Panel Featuring:

• Hon. Nancy Gertner Judge (Retired), U.S. District Court Massachusetts
• State Representative Liz Malia, D-Jamaica Plain, 11th Suffolk District
• Jamarhl Crawford, Occupy the Hood Boston/the Blackstonian

for more info:
http://blackstonian.com/news/2012/01/the-high-costs-of-prospective-3-str...