Rethinking Security: Beyond Mass Incarceration

Dana Kaplan, executive director of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, recounted visiting men serving juvenile life-without-parole sentences in Louisiana, reviewed U.S. incarceration statistics and racial disparities, and described the post-Katrina community campaign that cut a planned New Orleans jail from 7,500 to 1,500 beds. Fall 2013 series "Rethinking Security: Beyond Mass Incarceration." James Kilgore introduced her and linked the talk to the Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice campaign against a new county jail. Audience Q&A covered city ordinances, juvenile detention, charter schools, and the recent death of Herman Wallace of the Angola 3.