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"Private Prisons are Unconstitutional," a discussion with John Dacey

By KiYa Moghaddam / March 8, 2017 / Comments Off on "Private Prisons are Unconstitutional," a discussion with John Dacey

  According to the speaker, the United States and the majority of state governments have created a justice system that promotes incarceration to drive profit. Our society has made it profitable for corporations to incarcerate people, with prisoners calculated as growth commodities on corporate balance sheets. Shareholders are fiscally rewarded when private prison populations increase. […]

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Upcoming Events

By KiYa Moghaddam / January 14, 2017 / Comments Off on Upcoming Events

Leonard Manzella’s CAGES January 19-29th While counseling mentally ill patients in a corrupt prison system, a psychologist is challenged to evaluate his own life by the very inmates he came to help. When Dr. Tom Morri returns to the prison he had previously been terminated from, he begins to see the system – and himself […]

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Roundtable Accepting Advocacy Fellowship Applications Through January 11th

By KiYa Moghaddam / December 22, 2016 / Comments Off on Roundtable Accepting Advocacy Fellowship Applications Through January 11th

In 2016, with the support of Shield-Ayres Foundation, the Roundtable launched an Advocacy Fellowship Program for formerly incarcerated persons with lived experience navigating the criminal justice system and reentering the community. The Fellowship program was such a success that we are expanding it to include an additional Fellowship position for 2017. The new Fellow will […]

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Statesman article on UT and A/TCRRT Forum on Employment and Criminal Records

By KiYa Moghaddam / December 3, 2014 / Comments Off on Statesman article on UT and A/TCRRT Forum on Employment and Criminal Records

On November 14th, the UT Opportunity Forum, the William Wayne Justice Center at UT Law, and the Austin/Travis County Reentry Roundtable hosted a forum titled “Fair Chance Hiring: Reducing Criminal Record Barriers to Employment.” See coverage of this event and the broader issue in the attached article from the Austin American-Statesman.

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