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The presentation includes a brief PowerPoint presentation on topics from the Female Offender Manual. A panel discussion follows to address questions on the policy, medical treatment, special needs and challenges regarding the administration of female facilities.
This panel examines the continued criminalization of HIV and other health status, the undermining of the central principle that criminal intent be required for criminal liability, and efforts to reform these discriminatory laws.
20th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference August 18-20, 2021 | Held Virtually
National Advocates for Pregnant Women presented this webinar with the goal of expanding our nationwide network of criminal defense lawyers who have the training and tools needed to provide excellent representation in cases of women being criminally charged or otherwise punished in relationship to pregnancy.
They call me a lady lawyer, a pretty sobriquet...for of course to be worthy of so dainty a title, I was bound to maintain a dainty manner as I browbeat my way through the marshes of ignorance and prejudice. - Clara Shortridge Folz
This month Laura Reed reviews Outlaw Women: Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty in the American West by Susan Dewey.
This month Susan Elizabeth Reese reviews Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court by Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson.
Letter to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees regarding the increased overcriminalization, enforcement, and surveillance of already-marginalized communities under pandemic protocols.
This month Susan Elizabeth Reese reviews Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law by Jill Norgren.
