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In the name of Allah Most Compassionate Most Merciful

MANA Social Justice Task Force

U.S. Prison System: Muslims and Human Rights

February 13, 2010

Howard University, Blackburn Center

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Program

9:00-9:20: Welcome and Introduction (Blackburn Center Ballroom)
 

Hodari Abdul-Ali, Khalil Abdul Rahman, and Ihsan Bagby

10:00-12:00: Super Max Prisons, 23-hour isolation, Control Units and Administrative Segregation: Its History and Inhumanity (Blackburn Center Ballroom)
  Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, MAS Freedom
  Bonnie Kerness, Coordinator of Prison Watch,
American Friends Service Committee
  J. Soffiyah Elijah, Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI)
at Harvard Law School (HLS)
  Masai Ehehosi, International Committee in Support of Imam Jamil Al-Amin
  Nihad Awad (CAIR), Moderator
12:00-1:30: Lunch and Salah al-Zuhr
1:30-3:30: Muslims, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, and the U.S. Prison System
(Blackburn Center Ballroom)
  Karimah Al-Amin, Lawyer; wife of Imam Jamil Al-Amin
  Jihad Abdul Mumit, Activist
  Watani Tyehimba, CEO, Tyehimba Services
  Mauri Salaakhan (Peace and Justice Foundation), Moderator
3:30-4:00: Salah al-Asr
4:00-6:00: Developing Strategies for Change (Blackburn Center Lounge)
  Cynthia McKinney, Former Congresswoman; Activist
  Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General
  Sala Nolan, United Church of Christ, Minister for Criminal Justice
and Human Rights Program
  Natsu Taylor Saito, Law Professor, Georgia State University
  Khalid Abdus Samad (International Council for Urban Peace, Justice & Empowerment), Moderator

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