Separate and Unequal

Emma Kaufman

Researcher and author Emma Kaufman will present a lecture about the rise and consequences of the “all-foreign” prison system in the United States. The program will be held on Monday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Stern Center Great Room.

Kaufman, a researcher for the University of Oxford Border Criminologies Project, will talk about her newest book, Punish and Expel, which is based on her research inside men’s prisons investigating the treatment of imprisoned non-citizens. She will touch on questions such as:

  • Is it legal to segregate American prisons by citizenship status?
  • How are non-citizens treated inside prison systems in the United States and Europe?
  • What can we learn—about punishment, ethics and immigration policy—by studying prisons that are built to expel?

Kaufman is a 2015 graduate of Yale Law School, where she received the C. LaRue Munson Prize for excellence in clinical representation. She has a Ph.D. in law from the University of Oxford, where she was both a Marshall and Clarendon scholar. During her studies at Oxford’s New College she received the Roger Hood Prize for publishing the best paper in criminology. She also has published several articles and books on issues ranging from American immigration imprisonment to the relationship between gender and punishment and British prison policy. Kaufman is a native of Carlisle and a graduate of Carlisle High School.

The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.

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Published February 12, 2016