Panel Discussion
Policies Tear Families Apart in New Mexico

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Award winning journalist, and former Soros Justice Media Fellow, Nell Bernstein, author of
ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD: CHILDREN OF THE INCARCERATED

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Professor Renny Golden, criminologist, published poet, well known activist for social rights in El Salvador and Guatemala, and author of
WAR ON THE FAMILY: MOTHERS IN PRISON AND THE CHILDREN THEY LEAVE BEHIND

discussed their books which reveal how children
and parents are torn apart by the American penal system

Youth from PB&J Family Services, Inc. (a non-profit social service agency that serves families of the imprisoned) shared their personal experiences on how the penal system has affected their lives.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6-8 pm UNM Law School Room 2402

Sponsors: NM Women’s Justice Project, Inc.
and PB&J Family Services, Inc.

Co-sponsors include: The Women’s Agenda, Coalition for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union of NM; NM Voices for Children; Drug Policy Alliance-NM; New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty; New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association; Southwest Women’s Law Center.

For more information call: Christina Vigil, 505.999-1935