With the generous support of the Vincentian Endowment Fund, CPIL will commemorate the 350th anniversaries of the lives of social justice pioneers St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Maraillac with a symposium focusing on the crisis in criminal and immigrant detention.

The evening speaker and panel will introduce the areas of focus, including detention conditions, privatization, racism, and vulnerable populations. The focus areas will be discussed in greater detail the following day with a panel discussion on each topic. The panels will bring together community activists and organizers, lawyers, professors and people of faith who are working on immigration or criminal detention and examine how the two issues overlap and what can be done to ?x these broken systems.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Reception, speaker, and panel discussion
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Holland & Knight
131 South Dearborn Street
30th Floor
Chicago, Illinois

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Day-long symposium
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
DePaul Center
1 East Jackson Boulevard
Room 8005
Chicago, Illinois

Co-sponsored by:
Society for Asylum and Immigration Law
National Lawyers Guild
Latino Law Student Association
Law Students for Reproductive Justice
Black Law Student Association

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. To register, please email sloughli@depaul.edu.