Event

Please join us for an event this Thursday, April 17, 2014 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm at Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 200.

Fernando Bermudez spent 18 years wrongfully incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. On November 12, 2009 Justice John Cataldo of the New York State Supreme Court overturned his conviction and dismissed the charges, declaring Mr. Bermudez innocent. This case represents one of the rare instances in New York where a judge has ruled that a defendant was innocent without the presence of DNA evidence.

On Thursday, April 17, Mr. Bermudez will be sharing his experiences of 18 years of wrongful conviction, incarceration, and eventual exoneration with Professor Kaia Stern’s “From Plantations to Prisons” sociology class. This event is open to the public, visitors welcome.

From the conference website: Princeton’s Students for Prison Education And Reform (SPEAR) aims to start an action-based dialogue on how to build and transition to a new system of criminal justice that prioritizes effectiveness, fairness, and humanity. During the conference, panel discussions will provide academic insight on the contemporary state of the United States criminal […]

Juvenile In Justiceis a project that documents the placement and treatment of young people in American jails and prisons. A selection of these soul-stirring photographs will be displayed on the 3rd floor of Wasserstein Hall at Harvard Law School from March 21st to April 11th, 2014. Please join us on March 25th from 4:00-6:00 PM […]

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 5:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036, Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Co-sponsored by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED, WRITTEN, AND DIRECTED BY KEN BURNS || DAVID McMAHON || SARAH BURNS THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE SYNOPSIS In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were […]