The Institute for Policy Research
at Northwestern University

is pleased to invite you to a policy briefing on

After Prison: The Effects of
Mass Incarceration in the U.S.

Over the past three decades, the U.S. prison population has skyrocketed, with six times as many people in prison today as in 1972. More than 600,000 prisoners will be released this year alone. The effects of this massive prison population stretch to the very foundations of our society and communities. In this briefing, we will present new research findings about the destabilizing effects of prisoner re-entry on families, work, and political participation.

Moderator:
Mary Pattillo, IPR Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor, Sociology/African-American Studies, Northwestern University; co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2004)

Panelists:
Kathryn Edin, IPR Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor, Sociology, Northwestern University; co-author of Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (University of California Press, forthcoming 2004).

Jeff Manza, IPR Associate Director and Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor, Sociology, Northwestern University; co-author of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Devah Pager, IPR Faculty Fellow; Assistant Professor, Sociology, Northwestern University, author of The Mark of a Criminal Record: Race, Crime, and Getting a Job (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)

Click here for more information on panelists.

Monday, June 7
Noon-1:30 p.m.

Kellogg School of Management, Wieboldt Hall
Northwestern University
340 E. Superior St., 4th floor
Chicago

Lunch will be served. Reduced-rate parking is available. Please contact us for more information on parking stickers.

If you are interested in attending the briefing, please contact Patricia Reese at 847-491-8712.