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DESCRIPTION:Prison Forums presents the first of a series\nThe Prison Business: Who 
 Pays? Who Profits?\nThursday, March 14th\n5:30 PM to 7:30 PM\nDelancey 
 Street Foundation\n600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, California\nseven blocks 
 south of the Embarcadero BART station\n\n\n\na panel presentation followed 
 by discussion moderator:\nJohn Irwin - ex-convict, author, and activist 
 panelists:\n" James Austin: the national prison business picture\nJames 
 Austin is the director of the Institute on Crime, Justice, and\nCorrections 
 at theGeorge Washington University in Washington, D.C. Before\njoining GWU, 
  he was the Executive Vice President of the National Council on\nCrime and 
 Delinquency for 20 years. He began his career in corrections in\n1970 as a 
 correctional sociologist at Joliet and Stateville prisons in\nIllinois. He 
 has more than 25 years of experience in criminal justice\nplanning and 
 research. He serves, or has recently served, as director for\nseveral U.S. 
 Department  of Justice funded research and evaluation programs.\nSome of 
 his most recent studies include national evaluations of Three\nStrikes and 
 Your Out laws, privatization of prisons, juveniles in adult\ncorrections, 
 and prison classification systems. He also conducted\nevaluations of 
 several major local jail systems (Seattle, New York City, Los\nAngeles,  
 Philadelphia, Chicago, and D.C.). He directed studies in 25 states\nto 
 develop correctional populations projections based on current and\nproposed 
 sentencing reforms.\n\n" Ruthie Gilmore: impact of the Prison Industrial 
 Complex on rural communities\n\nBorn in 1950, Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a 
 life-long activist for social\njustice. She has been doing frontline 
 anti-racist work since age ten when\nshe was sent to desegregate a school 
 on her own. In the past decade Gilmore\nhas specialized in helping form 
 grassroots organizations that link issues of\nprison expansion, 
 criminalization, racism, and sexism with the wide and deep\nconsequences of 
 governmental and capital abandonment that has left enormous\nnumbers of 
 people stuck in impoverished urban and rural communities. She has\nwritten 
 numerous articles, and a forthcoming book (Golden Gulag, University\nof 
 California Press) about the political economy of prison expansion in\nurban 
 and rural context, and the cultures of opposition of those who 
 are\nfighting prison growth. Organizational affiliations include: 
 Critical\nResistance, California Prison Moratorium Project, Families 
 Against\nCalifornia's Three Strikes, California Prison Focus, Mothers 
 Reclaiming Our\nChildren, the Union of Radical Political Economists, and 
 the National\nWriters' Union. Gilmore is Assistant Professor of Geography 
 at U.C.\nBerkeley.\n\n" Deborah Vargas: the power of prison guards' 
 unions\nCurrently,  Deborah Vargas works with the Justice Policy Institute 
 of the\nCenter on Juvenile and Criminal Justice as a researcher and policy 
 analyst.\nShe holds two bachelors degrees, one in Psychology (emphasis on 
 adolescent\npsychology) and one in Social Science, with a minor in Criminal 
 Justice. She\nis also a graduate student in Public Administration at San 
 Francisco State\nUniversity, concentrating on criminal justice 
 administration. She recently\ncompleted a study on the power of the 
 California Correctional Peace Officers\nAssociation in her capacity as a 
 researcher and policy analyst with the\nJustice Policy Institute.\n\nHosted 
 by Delancey Street Foundation; Presented by the Crimiinal 
 Justice\nConsortium,  the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 
 Critical\nResistance, and the Smart on Crime Coalition\nFor more 
 information contact Virginia at:  415/753-6602 
 or\nvirgie@worldnet.att.net\n\nconsider having dinner at the Delancey 
 Street Restaurant after the forum\n\n\nCritical Resistance\n1212 Broadway, 
 Suite 1400\nOakland, ca 94612\nPhone: (510)444-0484\nFax: 
 (510)444-2177\nrose@criticalresistance.org\ncrnational@criticalresistance.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5183.php
SUMMARY:The Prison Business: Who Pays? Who Profits?
LOCATION:Delancey Street Foundation\n600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, 
 California\nseven blocks south of the Embarcadero BART station
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5183.php
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