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WATSON COLEMAN TO HOLD ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH NATIONAL EXPERTS TO EXAMINE RE-ENTRY ISSUES
By teelWATSON COLEMAN TO HOLD ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH NATIONAL EXPERTS TO EXAMINE RE-ENTRY ISSUES
(TRENTON) - Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer) today announced she will host a roundtable discussion Wednesday with national reentry experts to examine ways to improve education and training for individuals released from prison to help them avoid returning to a life of crime.
The hearing is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 6, Committee Room 11 at the State House Annex.
The hearing will be the eighth in a series of Second Chance Hearings hosted by the Majority Leader across New Jersey from Camden to Trenton to Newark. The hearings focused on issues impacting inmates and individuals recently released from prison, including the pervasive cycle of arrest, incarceration, release and reincarceration and the financial impacts to the state.
The roundtable discussion will include a panel of national experts on reentry issues including:
· Mr. Glenn Martin, Fortune Society;
· Sheriff Michael J. Ashe, Jr., Hampden County Sheriff's Department in Massachusetts;
· Todd Clear, John Jay University;
· Judith Greene, Justice Strategies;
· Ms. Renata Cobbs Fletcher, Public Private Ventures;
· Dr. Stephanie R. Bush Baskette, Esq., Ph.D., Rutgers Newark, The State University of New Jersey;
· Dr. David Festinger & Jack Kemp, Treatment Research Institute;
· Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General;
· Attorney Henry A. Dlugacz
For more information call (609) 292-0500.
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