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Contact: Amy
Armstrong
Director of University Relations
Tel: 830.792.7405
Email:
anarmstrong@schreiner.edu |
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For
Immediate Release
May 18, 2007 |
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Restorative Justice Conference Free Events |
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Saturday, June 23 (San Antonio)
5-6:30 p.m.: Open House reception at Crosspoint, Inc., 225
East Locust at McCullough. Hosted by County Commissioner Tommy
Adkisson.
6:30-7:30 p.m.: Potluck dinner at the San Antonio Mennonite
Church and peaceCENTER, 1443 South St. Mary, below Durango Street.
7:30-9 p.m.: Discussion on "Global Perspectives of
Restorative Justice" moderated by Eliza Sonneland; with Dr. Howard
Zehr, Leigh Garrett of Australia; Marty Price, South American
Researcher and Fulbright Scholar; East Los Angeles pastor the Rev.
Rene Ledesma; Sayantani Guin of India; Peruvian peaceworker Jonathan
Beachy; and juvenile justice authority, Dr. Gordon Bazemore.
Sunday, June 24 (Schreiner University, Kerrville)
Free round-trip shuttle service from University Presbyterian Church,
San Antonio, to Schreiner University in Kerrville. Please call ahead
for this service, (210) 732-9927, or send an e-mail to
solcenter@upcsa.org.
2-5:15 p.m.: Opening Plenary Session, Dietert Auditorium,
Schreiner University campus; U.S. Congressman Danny K. Davis, 7th
Congressional District of Illinois, “The Second Chance Act: Views of
Restorative Justice from Capitol Hill.” 2:45 p.m., Dr. Howard Zehr,
“The Promise and Challenges of Restorative Justice for Victims.”
3:45 p.m., Elaine Enns and Ched Myers — “Broadening the Definition
and Practices of Restorative Justice.”
Monday, June 25
Free round-trip shuttle service from University Presbyterian Church,
San Antonio, to Schreiner University in Kerrville. Please call ahead
for this service, (210) 732-9927, or send an e-mail to
solcenter@upcsa.org.
10:30 a.m.: Faith Groups and Restorative Justice Track,
Dietert Auditorium, “Probation and the Role of the Faith Community”
led by Joel Zamarripa, Community Partner Coordinator, Harris County
(Texas) Community Supervision and Corrections Department (HCCSCD).
Restorative Justice in the First Person Track, Dietert Classroom on
right-hand side of entrance to Dietert Auditorium, “Caring for the
Victims of Crime.”
3:30 p.m.: Faith Groups and Restorative Justice Track,
Dietert Auditorium, “Faith-based Dorms, the Correctional System and
the Community,” panel moderated by Jack G. Cowley. Restorative
Justice in the First Person Track, Dietert Classroom on right-hand
side of entrance to Dietert Auditorium, “The Faith Community
Responds,”
Jean Humphreys on the “Daughters of Abraham” project; Sally Bethea
on San Antonio’s “Woman at the Well” reentry program; the Rev.
Louise Stowe-Johns on “Conflict Resolution in Congregations”; and
Ruth Armstrong on “Researching Faith-based Reentry.”
Tuesday, June 26
Free round-trip shuttle service from University Presbyterian Church,
San Antonio, to Schreiner University in Kerrville. Please call ahead
for this service, (210) 732-9927, or send an e-mail to
solcenter@upcsa.org.
10:30 a.m.: Faith Groups and Restorative Justice Track,
Dietert Auditorium, workshop on “Biblical Concepts of Restorative
Justice,” the Rev. Dr. Marcus Cosby, Senior Pastor of Wheeler Avenue
Baptist Church in Houston. Restorative Justice in the First Person
Track, Dietert Classroom on right-hand side of entrance to Dietert
Auditorium, “The Family Left Behind: Restorative Justice and the
Families of Offenders,” Roger W. Hollar, director of the Mercy Heart
program in Dallas, Texas, moderater.
3:30 p.m.: Faith Groups and Restorative Justice Track,
Dietert Auditorium, “Relationships: The Working Partnership between
the Texas Correctional System and the Faith Community,” Bert
Thompson, moderater; panel members Nathaniel Quarterman, Director of
Correctional Institutions Division of TDCJ; Madeline Ortiz, Director
of Rehabilitation and Reentry Programs Division of TDCJ; Doug Dretke,
Executive Director of the Correction Management Institute of Texas (CMIT)
at Sam Houston State University; and Bryan Collier, Director of
Parole Division of TDCJ. Bonus Program, Dietert Classroom on
right-hand side of entrance to Dietert Auditorium,Dr. Virgil A.
Wood, “Escaping from the Underclass: How Socio-Economics Affects
Crime and Punishment in America.”
9:00 p.m.: Free concert by
David LaMotte
-- singer, songwriter, acoustic guitarist -- Cailloux
Student Union Ballroom.
Wednesday June 27, 2007
9:00 a.m.: Faith Groups and Restorative Justice Track,
Dietert Auditorium, “Addiction and the Faith-Based Recovery
Community,” the Rev. Matt Russell, Pastor of Mercy Street in
Houston, Texas, and Stek Steck, State Director for Celebrate
Recovery Inside. Restorative Justice in the First Person Track,
Dietert Classroom on right-hand side of entrance to Dietert
Auditorium, “From Incarceration to Reentry: It’s about
Relationships,” panel discussion.
10:45 a.m. - noon: Concluding Plenary Session, second-floor
ballroom, Cailloux Student Activities Building. “Exploring the
Harms: A Reporter's Personal Journey through a Texas Death Penalty
Case,” San Antonio Express-News Deputy Metro Editor Tricia
Schwennesen shares her experience of covering the story of a Texas
death row inmate. |
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