Committees on The Justice System - New York City Bar Association

Author and legal commentator Emily Bazelon led a conversation with Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Gonzalez recently introduced Justice 2020, an initiative aimed at sending fewer people to prison, ensuring more people are released early from prison, minimizing collateral consequences, and collaborating with community-based organizations in finding solutions to over-incarceration. This discussion explored the role that prosecutors have played in creating a mass incarceration crisis in this country, as well as what prosecutors can do to play a constructive role in alleviating the crisis. Speakers: Emily Bazelon, Author, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration Eric Gonzalez, Brooklyn District Attorney Sponsoring Association Committee: Mass Incarceration Task Force, Sean Hecker, Chair Co-sponsoring Association Committee: Criminal Justice Operations Committee, Sarah Berger, Chair Civil Rights Committee, Philip Desgranges, Chair Related Resources: If you