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Beyond the Bars Livestreaming and Conference Programs
Did you miss Beyond the Bars? Friday night’s kick off events and several Saturday panels can be livestreamed here BEYOND THE BARS LIVESTREAMING CONFERENCE Schedule FRIDAY MARCH 6TH Friday Night...
View ArticleProf. Christia Mercer contributes to Washington Post op-ed about...
In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, Columbia Professor of Philosophy Christia Mercer relates her experience volunteering as a teacher in a women’s prison, highlighting the need for prison...
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Beyond the Bars Resources
We want to first thank everyone who made the 5th annual Beyond the Bars Conference the powerful weekend that it was. Thank you to Michelle Alexander and those who helped kick off the conference on...
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Beyond the Bars 2015 Recap
The 2015 Beyond the Bars conference was a powerful weekend that brought together people from different spaces and places to think critically about issues across the carceral continuum and discuss ways...
View ArticleChun Rosenkranz, CSSW ’15, publishes article in the Guardian about sentencing...
Chun Rosenkranz, CSSW ’15 wrote a piece in the Guardian this week, detailing his experience with sentencing disparities that ended in his friend’s death in police custody. Eight years ago, Rosenkranz...
View ArticleJUST Arts Lab Launching this Summer
The Just Arts Lab is Launching this summer and we are currently looking for participants and peer mentors. Systems of policing, mass incarceration of youth, and the school to prison pipeline are...
View ArticlePresident Bollinger Issues Statement Supporting Divestment from Private Prisons
On Friday May 15th, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger issued a statement on divestment from both companies that operate private prisons and from fossil fuels. President Bollinger wrote the...
View ArticleColumbia to Become First University to Divest from Private Prisons
The Center for Justice commends the University for voting to divest from private prisons and recognizes and values the work of the student organizers that brought this to the attention of not only...
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The 2015-16 Beyond the Bars Fellowship – APPLY NOW
THE BEYOND THE BARS FELLOWSHIP offers students and community members an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of mass incarceration and social change; and to collaborate with social justice...
View ArticleThe New York Consortium for Higher Education in Prison Applauds Announcement...
The New York Consortium for Higher Education in Prison Applauds the Obama Administration Announcement to Reinstate Pell Grant Eligibility for Incarcerated Students as Part of a Pilot Program Contact...
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RikersBot Featured by Data Science Institute
Our ongoing coding project, RikersBot, was featured on the Data Science Institute’s blog. A special thanks to all those from all over Columbia University—professors, students and faculty—who partnered...
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RikersBot Featured in Fast Company
Our ongoing coding project, RikersBot, was featured in Fast Company. RikersBot is a coding and digital storytelling project created Group for the Experimental Methods in the Humanities and Center for...
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The Confined Arts 3rd Edition
In it’s third edition, The Confined Arts proved to many that the arts has the power to change perceptions because it can convey humanity and transformation. It has the capacity to elicit an empathic...
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The Justice Forum – “From Juvenile Justice to Young Adult Justice: An...
On November 30, 2015 the Center for Justice at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Heyman Center for the Humanities Public Humanities Initiative, the Center for the Study of Law and...
View ArticleWhy Education Matters – Center Director Dr. Geraldine Downey on Talks at...
Why Education Matters Young people with a criminal history may face a lifetime of marginalization but we can support their transition to adulthood through education, says Geraldine Downey, Professor...
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Beyond the Bars 2016 Save the Date: March 4-6
The 6th Annual Justice Conference at Columbia University BEYOND THE BARS Connecting the Struggles SAVE THE DATE: MARCH 4-6, 2016 The 6th annual Beyond the Bars Conference will take place March 4-6,...
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Meet the 2015-16 Beyond the Bars Fellows
Our current Fellows come from many schools across Columbia (Social Work, Teachers College, Columbia College and the School of Professional Studies), other colleges (John Jay College of Criminal...
View ArticleMissed Beyond the Bars 2016? Watch Now
Did you miss Beyond the Bars 2016? Friday night’s Kick-Off Event with Angela Davis, the two Saturday morning plenaries as well as the two featured breakout panels on Saturday afternoon can all be...
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Did you miss Beyond the Bars 2016? Don’t Fret, Here’s What you Missed
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who joined us over the three days, all of the amazing speakers, the more than 1600 attendees, the many organizations, the Columbia Staff and all of...
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Beats, Rhymes & Justice Featured in VICE
Beats, Rhymes, and Justice @ Rikers Island – Photographed by Jason Bergman for VICE Beats, Rhymes & Justice (BRJ), a collaboration with our partners at Audio Pictures LLC., was recently featured in...
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