Tonight from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Milano will be hosting New School urban policy professor Jeff Smith as he launches his new book Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis at the Theresa Lang center in Arnhold Hall (55 West 13th Street.) Following a brief reading from the book by Smith himself, author Touré will moderate a discussion about criminal justice reform with Professor Jeff Smith, Soffiyah Elijah (Executive Director of Correctional Association of New York), Dr. Carla Shedd (Columbia University sociologist), and Melissa Mark Viverito (New York City Council Speaker).
Those who cannot attend can live-stream it here!
*This event is co-sponsored by the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, the Center for New York City Affairs, and Humanities Action Lab.
