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Disproportionate Minority Confinement
June 2, 2003
Carol Rose executive director, ACLU MA
David Wright exec dir, African-American Federation
Robin Dahlberg attorney, ACLU representative
Chuck Turner Boston city councilor
Lael Chester ACLU, Boston
Valerie Johnson Ella J. Baker House
Reba Danastrong executive director, Boston Ten Point Coalition
Amy Farrell NEU Institute of Race and Justice
Hugh Johnson case manager, United Souls Reentry Program

A panel of members of law enforcement, advocacy, politics, youth activism, and community and faith-based organizations discusses the results of the Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Massachusetts report.

The ACLU headquarters in New York recently released a report on Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Massachusetts. The report specifically examines how black and latino youth are over-represented in every phase of the juvenile or criminal justice system, and offers recommendations to the Governor on how the state should address the issue. In conjunction with the report's release, the Northeastern University Institute on Race and Justice organized this community event with ACLU, Roxbury Defender's Office and Youth Advocacy Project to provide a forum for community response and dialogue around DMC as a state problem.

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