Latinx Communities and the Criminal Legal System

At a crucial time when racial disparities continue to be a fixture of our national and local criminal legal context, this event seeks to elevate the unique and disparate treatment faced by Latinx people and their surrounding communities, including immigration system involvement, language barriers, and other unseen consequences. The event will run for four hours and will feature three panel discussions and remarks from directly impacted community members and other Latinx leaders in the fields of criminal and immigration reform.

This event seeks to convene directly impacted people, researchers, practitioners, elected officials, and others to discuss disparate data collection on Latinx people who are justice-involved, the unique and often excessive consequences suffered at the intersection of the criminal legal and immigration systems, and the reforms needed to advance racial equity and improve justice outcomes for the Latinx community.

Welcome & Keynote Address

Panel 1: State of Latinx People in the Justice System

• Overview of Latinx involvement in the justice system

• Data collection deficiencies and implications for studying racial disparities

• Impact on resource allocation and service provision in the criminal legal system

Panel 2: The Immigration and Criminal Legal Systems’ Intersection

• Explaining how arrest can lead to severe immigration consequences

• Discussing the criminalization of legal migration

• Unique impacts on immigrant families and communities

Break

Panel 3: Legal Reforms and Policy Solutions

• Pending reforms that could benefit Latinx communities.

• Policies and practices by local officials (e.g. City Council, Court Administration, Prosecutors) to overcome systemic barriers (e.g. limited language access)

• Pathways to eradicating racial inequities within the criminal legal system

Closing Remarks

This event will take place in-person at the Student Dining Hall at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and will also be livestreamed.

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