Schedule

Thursday, March 19, 2009

3:00-4:00pm: Registration and Refreshments

4:00-4:15pm: Introductions and Opening Statements

Academic Dean Shauna Marshall

4:15-6:00pm: Defining the Problem

Chair: Professor Hadar Aviram, University of California, Hastings

Harold Atkins, Centerforce

Matthew Cate, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Professor Craig Haney, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jeanne Woodford, formerly Chief Probation Officer of San Francisco County

Professor Franklin Zimring, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

6:00-6:15pm: Break

6:15-7:30pm: Litigation over Prison Medical Services

Chair: Professor Aaron Rappaport, University of California, Hastings

Clark Kelso, Receiver, California Prison Health Care Services

Dr. Lori Kohler, Director, Correctional Medicine Consultation Network, UCSF

Donald Specter, Director, Prison Law Office

7:30-8:30pm: Hors d’oeuvres reception

9:00-11:00pm: Special Event

Special screening of A Hard Straight: A Documentary about Doing Time on the Outside

Commentary and discussion with film director Goro Toshima

Friday, March 20, 2009

8:00-9:00am: Registration continues/continental breakfast

9:00-10:15am: Sentencing Reform in California

Chair: Professor Aaron Rappaport, University of California, Hastings

The Honorable Tricia A. Bigelow, Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, 2d Appellate District

Kara Dansky, Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Michael Jimenez, President, California Correctional Peace Officers Association

Senator Mark Leno, California State Senate

10:15-10:30am: Break

10:30-11:30: Concurrent Sessions: Alternative Sentencing Models

(1) Restorative Justice and Sentencing

Chair: Professor Kate Bloch, University of California, Hastings

Sunny Schwartz, Program Administrator, San Francsico Sheriff’s Department

Marissa Wertheimer, Marin Mediation Services

(2) Community Courts

Chair: Heather Freinkel, University of California, Hastings

The Honorable Ronald Albers, San Francisco Superior Court, Community Justice Center

Jennifer Friedenbach, Director, Coalition on Homelessness

(3) Neuroscience, Treatment, and Drug Courts

Chair: Sam Berns, University of California, Hastings

Dr. Emily Murphy, Stanford Law School

11:30-Noon: Luncheon Speaker

The Honorable Lawrence Karlton, U.S. District Court

Noon-1:00pm: Lunch

1:00-2:15pm: Special Populations in Prison

Chair: Professor Eumi Lee, University of California, Hastings

Dr. Barbara Bloom, Sonoma State University

Angie Junck, Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Alexander Lee, Legal Director, TGI Justice Project

Miss Major, Organizing Director, TGI Justice Project

2:15-2:30pm: Break

2:30-4:00: Dangerousness, Risk, and Release

Chair: Professor Hadar Aviram, University of California, Hastings

Evelyn Lara-Lowe, Deputy Regional Administrator for Parole, CDCR Adult Parole Operations

Shadia Merukeb, Victim Consultant, Alameda County District Attorney’s Victim-Witness Assistance Division

Robin Rederford, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

Professor Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

4:00-4:15pm: Coffee

4:15-5:30pm: Reentry and Returning to the Community

Chair: Professor Eumi Lee, University of California, Hastings

Jessica Flintoft, Safe Communities Reentry Council

Professor Gerald P. Lopez, UCLA Law School

Dorsey Nunn, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

5:30-7:00pm: Closing remarks and wine reception

Dean Nell Jessup Newton