Dr. Baz Dreisinger: Journeying to Justice: Reflections on Global Prisons

AUP presents a discussion with Dr. Baz Dreisinger entitled "Journeying to Justice: Reflections on Global Prisons". Please join us and our guest speaker on Monday, Nov 13th at 6:30 PM in C-103. Dr. Dreisinger is the author of Incarceration Nations and an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and will be speaking on her work with the Prison-to-College Pipeline program and incarceration in America and the world. Her book focuses on surveying the criminal justice systems in nine countries and her work in the Prison-to-College Pipeline program works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals.

Dr. Dreisinger works at the intersection of race, crime, culture and justice. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, specializing in American and African-American studies. At John Jay she is the Founding Academic Director of John Jay's Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which offers college courses and re-entry planning to incarcerated men at Otisville Correctional Facility, and broadly works to increase access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. Her book Incarceration Nations documents her travels to the prisons in nine countries across the world and was named a notable book by the Washington Post.

Dr. Dreisinger was named a 2017-2018 Global Fulbright Scholar and is working to internationally replicate the Prison-to-College Pipeline, with a focus on the Caribbean and South Africa. She is currently working on a road map for how prison-to-college pipelines and restorative justice can replace mass incarceration as a system of justice.