Mass Incarcerations, Rights, and Democracy: Where Do We Draw the Line?

Speaker: Paula Cole Jones

UUs (Unitarian Universalists) across the country have been
reading Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Color Blindness. Our speaker examines policies and practices that are meant to
protect us but actually go against principles of fairness and basic human
rights. What does it mean for the religious community to bear witness to
structural injustices? How do UU principles inform us on matters of mass
incarceration? Where do we draw the line?

Paula Cole Jones serves as the Racial & Social Justice Director
for the Joseph Priestley District of the UUA (Unitarian Universalist
Association). She is also a management consultant and has over 20 years of
experience in designing and facilitating programs, workshops and dialogues for
leaders and organizations. For the past decade, she has worked with ministers,
congregations, boards, committees, districts and the staff of the UUA as an
anti-racism and anti-oppression consultant.