Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) to Host Immigration Detention Conference
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2018-04-30
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Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) will host its annual Incarceration in America conference from May 11 - 12 around the topic of immigration detention. All events are free, open to the public, and will take place in the CAPA
Symposium on Bennington’s campus. Speakers: Julián Lazalde , civic engagement & policy
analyst for the National Immigrant Justice Center, will moderate a panel on General Trends in
Immigration Enforcement . He is joined by John Amaya and Daniel Ragsdale , who were part
of the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama’s administration; Scott Clark from ACLU Immigrant Protection Project of Western MA; and Lauren Kostes from The
Florence Project. Khalil Cumberbatch , associate vice president of policy at The
Fortune Society, will moderate a panel on Immigration Detention and Private Prisons . He is
joined by Devora Gonzalez from School of the Americas Watch, Lauren Kostes from The
Florence Project, and Kent Mendoza from the Anti-Recidivism Coalition; Catherine Tactaquin will moderate a panel on Local Government and NGO Involvement . She is joined by Devora Gonzalez , Jessica Hanson from the National Immigration Law Center, Julián Lazalde from the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Corey Lazar from Vera Institute of Justice.