Free Public Discussion on Prison Reform

A Public Panel Discussion on Prison Reform will be hosted in the Louis Stokes Wing of the Cleveland Public Library on Saturday, November 7, from 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Dan Moulthrop, host of the WCPN morning radio show “Sound of Ideas”.

Our guest panelists will be:

• Mansfield B. Frazier, author of From Behind the Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate and founder of the Cleveland nonprofit organization, Neighborhood Solutions, Inc.
  
  
• Alan Elsner, acclaimed international journalist, senior editor at Reuters and author of several books including Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons.

• Frank Shewalter, warden of the Northeast Pre-Release Center located in downtown Cleveland.
  

Our guest panelist will discuss hot issues involving the prison system such as barriers to successful reentry, racial disparities in the justice system and ideas about reform.

You are invited to bring your thoughts, opinions and concerns, the panelists will host a 30 minute questions answer session toward the end of the program.

For further information about this program, please contact Sequoia Brown in the Social Sciences Department of Cleveland Public Library: 216-623-2860 [1] or sbrown [at] cpl [dot] org.

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