- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Criminal Justice Symposium, Tape 3, October 10, 2003
- Date of Original:
- 2003-10-10
- Subject:
- Meetings
African Americans--Civil rights
Crime
Law--Study and teaching
Race discrimination
African Americans--Politics and government
Capital punishment - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features proceedings from a criminal justice symposium held at the Interdenominational Theological Center sponsored by the Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights. The symposium focused on the topics of alternative sentences, mandatory sentences, sentencing disparities, and prisoner rehabilitation. The recording opens with Dr. Betty Ann Cook discussing prisoner rehabilitation needs. Norman S. Fletcher, the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, speaks about reforms in indigent defense. Other speakers include Georgia State Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens, Judge Leah Ward Sears, Fulton County public defender Vernon S. Pitts, public defender B. Michael Mears, Khalil Osiris, and Edward Menifee (founder of the Southwest Atlanta Youth Business Organization).
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01333
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 01:00:17
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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