Race and the Law Series: When Cruelty Becomes Ordinary

In this talk, part of the law school's Race and the Law series, Professor Chapin discussed the traumatization and impact of the criminal legal system that disproportionately affects noncitizens, asylum seekers, Black, brown, and impoverished communities. The cruelty of locking children, adults, and immigrants into jails in the United States has become ordinary, to the point that it is accepted as a way of life. In a time of mass protests against police violence and a reckoning with systemic racial discrimination, coupled with a pandemic that brutally swept through our nation?s crowded and dirty prisons, it may finally be the time for America to change its approach to policing and punishment. Professor Chapin expanded on the national disgrace of mass incarceration and steps to dismantle a system that is horrifically extraordinary.

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Speakers	Violeta Chapin, Clinical Professor of Law