Tuesday, September 19, 2023
All Day
This Constitution Day, Amy Fettig (legal analyst, former Deputy Director of the ACLU 's National Prison Project, and former Executive Director of thesentencingproject ) and Professor Kermit Roosevelt III (author of The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story) used the Eighth Amendment as a framework to examine the history of crime and punishment in America as well as contemporary issues in criminal justice reform. This discussion was moderated by Dr. Kerry Sautner, President and CEO of Eastern State Penitentiary.