Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

Angola’s historical relationship with slavery and its impact on the Louisiana criminal justice system will be the topic of the forthcoming virtual symposium titled “In Pursuit of Equal Justice: Race and Criminal Justice in Louisiana — Reconstruction, Convict Leasing, Jim Crow Governance and Prison Reform. The symposium will explore the impact of prison leasing, Jim Crow laws, the crack cocaine epidemic, mass incarceration, and the 2018 criminal justice reforms on Louisiana's disproportionate incarceration rate of black and brown people. Based upon rigorous research conducted by both Perry and Fisher-Giorlando, the symposium, examines 120 years of state-sanctioned racial discrimination in Louisiana’s criminal justice system, with the goal of contributing to a more transparent understanding of the relationships among racial inequality, mass incarceration, and injustice. In order to register and include any questions you may have for the panelists visit https://www.angolamuseum.org/events. You must be registered to attend this virtual symposium on zoom. For more information call the Angola Museum at 225-655-2592