Taft welcomed a distinguished panel of prison reform experts to campus this week. Students submitted questions to the panel prior to the event, which featured candid discussion around the privatization of prison systems across the country, “hyper-incarceration” rates in the United States when compared with those of other industrialized nations, the disproportionate rate at which in minorities are incarcerated in our nation, and the attendant disparity in sentencing terms.
The panel featured George Camp, Co-Executive Director of the Association of State Correctional Administrators, Waterbury, CT Mayor Neil O’Leary, and Scott Semple, Commissioner of the State of Connecticut Department of Corrections.
