“Break the Cycle” Conference

Mass Incarceration of Women:

Bodies, Families & Communities

May 18-19, 2004, New York City

Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

199 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007

“Break the Cycle” is a two-day conference held at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Individuals and organizations are invited to submit papers and outlines for panels, workshops, or performances focusing on women in the criminal justice system.  It’s time to unite and raise awareness about the lives of women inside the concrete womb of prisons and the lives of former women prisoners, their achievements as well as the obstacles that confront them.  Let’s end th e myths and stereotyping regarding women prisoners and ex-prisoners. Many former women prisoners are achieving and succeeding despite the great obstacles they face.  Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Bio Politics / Bio Control
Non-violent Drug Offenders & Higher Education
Black Women & Genocide
Now that I’m on the Outside
Crack, Crisis & the Community 
Pre-Release Issues
Criminal Injustice of Women
Racism & the Criminal Justice System

Drugs & Women
Sex, Gender & Crime
From Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship to Prison Blocks 
The Public School System
Gentrification of the ‘Hood & Women’s Image 
Voting Rights
Health Care
Welfare Reform / Welfare to Work
Hip Hop the Music & Women
What about the Children?

Hip Hop Nation: Connected to Cellblock?
Where to After the Cell Block?
History of Women’s Prison Industry/Criminology
Women & Drugs

Housing Authority
Woman, Mother & Breadwinner
Immigration & Deportation
Women Targeted & Why?
Juvenile Justice, or Is It?
Women Doing Time
Lock-em-up Syndrome
Women & Children
Men Doing Time
Women, Violence & Crime

Join us to examine the prison industrial complex, mandatory minimum sentencing laws, the war on drugs, juvenile justice, women injustice and the racism and economics that drive the criminal justice system.   Examine the way mass incarceration diverts funds for community services in drug treatment, health and social welfare and from the neighborhoods most impacted by incarceration.

Learn how capitalism, racism, and slavery pervade the prison industrial complex. Let come up with effective solutions to stop the mass incarceration of women.
 

We welcome participation by academia, criminal justice agencies and social justice advocates.  We strongly encourage submissions from former prisoners.  

Abstracts no later than Friday, February 27, 2004.  Notification of acceptance will be by Friday, March 19, 2004.

Email abstracts to:  Johanna DuBose, Conference Director, at breakthecycle05@aol.com

Mail to: “Break the Cycle” Organizing Committee, Student Government Association, S215, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007

(Breakfast & lunch will be served)
 

Any questions contact: Johanna DuBose at 212-481-4313

Umme Hena or Victor Ray at BMCC Student Government Association at 212-406-3980