Page 37 - Program 2018

Prison Sentences Deadfall Inside the Beltway
Shaka Senghor Linda Fairstein Amie Parnes
Thursday 4–4:45 pm Thursday 4–4:45 pm Thursday 4–4:45 pm
Walt Disney Room Anne Rice Room Joan Didion Room

Shaka Senghor, former inmate and author of Writing Alexandra Cooper is a Manhattan Assistant District Amie Parnes, Senior White House Correspondent
My Wrongs, is a passionate advocate of prison reform. Attorney for the Sex Crimes Unit. Linda Fairstein’s at The Hill in Washington and co-author of the #1
Senghor was convicted of second-degree murder at latest novel is #19 in the series, which melds storytelling New York Times best-seller Shattered, will share the
nineteen. He then served nineteen years in the Michigan at its best with Fairstein’s experiences as an Assistant latest news from her beat inside the Beltway. Parnes
Department of Corrections, seven of them in solitary District Attorney of the County of New York. Expect will also bring us up to date on the latest HRC news.
confinement. He knows, first hand, the myriad issues an engaging talk by a writer who puts heavy doses of With Patt Morrison.
facing our country’s mass incarceration problem and the grim reality in each of her expertly detailed books.
failure of rehabilitation through solitary confinement. With Richard North Patterson.
Elizabeth Sorensen will join him in conversation.

“I’m asking you
to envision a
world where

men and
women aren’t
held hostage to
their past.”

— Shaka Senghor

36