Angela Davis at CCSU - Thursday, April 24, 2008 "Are Prisons Obsolete?" Click here for Printable Flyer As presented by Ms. Davis and discussed by following current and former CT policy makers and practitioners: Rep. William Dyson, New Haven - former Appropriations Committee Chair and longtime prisoner re-entry advocate;  Atty. Gerard Smyth - former CT Chief Public Defender and current CCSU adjunct professor and staff member of the Gov. William A. O'Neill Endowed Chair; Maureen Price-Boreland, Executive Director of Community Partners in Action (formerly the CT Prison Association); and James Tillman (recently exonerated after serving 18 1/2 years in CT prisons on a rape and kidnapping conviction). Location: Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall Time: 2:00pm "Race, Class and Gender Issues in American Society" Time: 5:30pm Lecture will be followed by Q & A Location: Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall Central Connecticut State University Both events are free and open to the public You are encouraged to get a free ticket for the 5:30pm lecture by contacting Centix at 832-1989, located at the Information Desk in the Student Center. Angela Davis is an American socialist organizer who associated with the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of Judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, and was the subject of an intense manhunt. She was eventually captured, arrested, tried, and then acquitted in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. History. She is currently a Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California. Directions to CCSU: http://www.ccsu.edu/viewbook/find_us.htm Map of CCSU: http://www.ccsu.edu/campus_map/