Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

media release: In co-operation with the Lumen Christi Institute’s Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network, this event is the public keynote of workshop series offered by the UW Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy that gathers a diverse array of legal scholars and ethicists to explore how Catholic tradition and social thought can inform many challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system.

Panel features:

Rev Javier del Castillo, vicar for the Midwest Prelature of Opus Dei; attorney Dean A. Strang; Kevin Carr, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections; Cecelia Klingele, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School; The Hon. Thomas More Donnely, circuit court judge, Cook County

Free to all attendees. In- person could be limited due to space.