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Sixteen experts on a wide range of criminal justice issues will be speaking at a series of six Community Conversations: Criminal Justice, Yesterday and Today, to be held at various library locations in Westchester County.
Thursday, October 5, 7-8:30 pm, Ossining Public Library. Panelists will be Cheryl Robert, Executive Director of the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice; Sean Pica, Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison; and Roger Panetta, Professor Emeritus Fordham University and author.
Tuesday, October 10, 6-7:30 pm, New Rochelle Public Library. Speakers will include Tesa Fitzgerald, Executive Director of Hour Children; a representative of the Osbourne Association that serves people affected by crime and incarceration; and Janet Donat, Child Development Specialist at the EMERGE program.
Thursday, October 12 from 6-7:30pm, Yonkers Riverfront Library. Speakers will feature Brian Fischer, former Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections; Katherine Vockins, Founder and Executive Director of Rehabilitation Through the Arts; and Charles Moore, Rehabilitation Through the Arts Program and Alumni Coordinator.
Tuesday, October 17, 7-8:30 pm, Grinton I. Will Library, Yonkers. Speakers will include Martin F. Horn, Distinguished Lecturer in Corrections at the John Jay College, City University of New York; and Justin D. Pruyne, Esq., Deputy Commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Correction.
Thursday, October 26, 7-8:30pm, John C. Hart Memorial Library, Shrub Oak. Panelists will include Barbara Lambros of the Westchester County re-entry Task Force; Roger Panetta, Professor Emeritus Fordham University and author; and Edmundo Varela, Assistant Commissioner, Westchester County Probation.
Saturday, October 28, from 1-2:30 pm, Mount Kisco Public Library. Speakers will be Tamaris Princi, Abusive Partner Intervention Coordinator with Urban Resource Institute; and Dr. Kimberly Collica-Cox, Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice and Security Department of Pace University.
Organized by the Westchester Library System, in collaboration with the Sing Sing Prison Museum and funded by the Westchester Community Foundation, the series will focus on the 200-year history of Sing Sing and its impact on prison reform, as well as current issues of incarceration, reform, rehabilitation and re-entry.
Brent D. Glass, Director Emeritus of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution and Senior Advisor to the Sing Sing Museum project, will moderate each panel discussion and will be joined by Dana White, Ossining Village Historian. Each presentation will be followed by time for questions and conversation with members of the audience about the past and future of the American criminal justice system.
The public is invited to attend any or all of the Community Conversations free of charge. Program information and resources, including a reading list related to issues of criminal and social justice is available on the Westchester Library System website www.westchesterlibraries.org and at www.conversations.westchesterlibraries.org.
Thursday, October 5, 7-8:30 pm, Ossining Public Library. Panelists will be Cheryl Robert, Executive Director of the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice; Sean Pica, Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison; and Roger Panetta, Professor Emeritus Fordham University and author.
Tuesday, October 10, 6-7:30 pm, New Rochelle Public Library. Speakers will include Tesa Fitzgerald, Executive Director of Hour Children; a representative of the Osbourne Association that serves people affected by crime and incarceration; and Janet Donat, Child Development Specialist at the EMERGE program.
Thursday, October 12 from 6-7:30pm, Yonkers Riverfront Library. Speakers will feature Brian Fischer, former Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections; Katherine Vockins, Founder and Executive Director of Rehabilitation Through the Arts; and Charles Moore, Rehabilitation Through the Arts Program and Alumni Coordinator.
Tuesday, October 17, 7-8:30 pm, Grinton I. Will Library, Yonkers. Speakers will include Martin F. Horn, Distinguished Lecturer in Corrections at the John Jay College, City University of New York; and Justin D. Pruyne, Esq., Deputy Commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Correction.
Thursday, October 26, 7-8:30pm, John C. Hart Memorial Library, Shrub Oak. Panelists will include Barbara Lambros of the Westchester County re-entry Task Force; Roger Panetta, Professor Emeritus Fordham University and author; and Edmundo Varela, Assistant Commissioner, Westchester County Probation.
Saturday, October 28, from 1-2:30 pm, Mount Kisco Public Library. Speakers will be Tamaris Princi, Abusive Partner Intervention Coordinator with Urban Resource Institute; and Dr. Kimberly Collica-Cox, Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice and Security Department of Pace University.
Organized by the Westchester Library System, in collaboration with the Sing Sing Prison Museum and funded by the Westchester Community Foundation, the series will focus on the 200-year history of Sing Sing and its impact on prison reform, as well as current issues of incarceration, reform, rehabilitation and re-entry.
Brent D. Glass, Director Emeritus of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution and Senior Advisor to the Sing Sing Museum project, will moderate each panel discussion and will be joined by Dana White, Ossining Village Historian. Each presentation will be followed by time for questions and conversation with members of the audience about the past and future of the American criminal justice system.
The public is invited to attend any or all of the Community Conversations free of charge. Program information and resources, including a reading list related to issues of criminal and social justice is available on the Westchester Library System website www.westchesterlibraries.org and at www.conversations.westchesterlibraries.org.
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The Sing Sing Swing Up the River Cruise was a great success. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks played the whole cruise while all enjoyed professional swing dancers Paolo Pasta Lanna and Lauren Bova showing how the fabulous Jazz Age dances were done. The talented Victoria Swift, who is recognized as on of the top young jazz singers, performed with the band.
Check out the gallery of photos below by photographer Adam Ace Wolpinsky.
