From Convict Leasing to Mass Incarceration: Understanding the Black Carceral Experience Through the Lens of Environmental Justice

Join us for a Community Public Forum examining the Black carceral experience through the environmental justice lens, highlighting the intersections of mass incarceration, environmental harm, and health inequalities.

February 26, 2026

6:00-8:30 PM

CLJ Atrium

Cosponsors: Women Who Never Give-Up (WWNG UP); Rutgers Center on Criminal Justice, Youth Rights, and Race; Clean Water Action; Rutgers Criminal Law Society; Rutgers Environmental Law Society

Accountability for ICE Violence

Join ACS for a conversation with Professors Maria Ponomarenko and Lee Kovarsky exploring accountability for ICE violence.

UConn Law ACS/FedSoc Debate

UConn Law ACS is hosting, along with UConn Law Federalist Society, a two-debate evening for the following topics: Whether Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's capture by U.S. forces was legal, and when the national guard can lawfully be deployed in American cities. We will begin the evening with a dinner catered by Salute, an Italian restaurant in Hartford, followed by the debates.

William F. Starr Hall (Smith Reading Room for Dinner, Davis Courtroom for debate)