Conference Footage

All videos below are in WMV format.

Event Footage
Monday, September 12
Welcome & Introductions

WMFMakau Mutua, Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar

PANEL
Looking Back: The Attica Uprising and Aftermath

WMF Malcolm Bell, Former Special Assistant Attorney General (NYS Attica Investigation)

WMF Arthur O. Eve, Former NYS Assemblyman & Negotiator/Observer

WMF Elizabeth Gaynes, Executive Director, Osborne Association

WMF Melvin Marshall, 1971 Attica Inmate

WMF Dee Quinn Miller, Director, Forgotten Victims of Attica

WMF Michael Smith, Attica CO in 1971 and Hostage

WMF Teresa A. Miller, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo (moderator)

PANEL
Prisons, Empowerment, and Resistance

WMF Robert Clark, Professor of Anthropology, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

WMF Flores Forbes, Associate VP, Strategic Policy and Program Implementation, Columbia University

WMF Doran Larson, Professor of English, Hamilton College

WMF Joshua Page, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota

WMF Devonya Havis, Professor of Philosophy, Canisius College (moderator)

Media Panel
Attica, Prisons & the Media

WMF Gary Craig, Investigative Reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

WMF Theresa Lynch, Historian, University of New Hampshire Manchester

WMF Teresa Miller, Professor of Law, UB Law School
      (Watch Miller's "4 Myths About Attica")

WMF Theodore Kirkland, Former NYS Parole Commissioner

Tuesday, September 13
PANEL
Prison Violence in Feminist Perspective: Gender, Sexuality, and Race

WMF Anthony Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School

WMF Regina Kunzel, Professor of History, University of Minnesota

WMF Gabrielle Prisco, Director of Juvenile Justice Project, Correctional Association of New York

WMF Stephanie L. Phillips, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo (moderator)

PANEL
Past Demands, Current Concerns: How Far Have We Come?

WMF Jack Beck, Director, Prison Visiting Project, Correctional Association of New York

WMF Jim Conway, Retired Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility (2003-2010)

WMF Chuck Culhane, Erie County Prisoners' Rights Coalition

WMF Karen Murtagh-Monks, Executive Director, Prisoners Legal Services of New York

WMF Nan Haynes, Lecturer in Law, UB Law School, and Member, Erie County Community Corrections Advisory Board (moderator)

PANEL
Moving Forward: Prison Reform in an Era of Mass Incarceration and Fiscal Crisis

WMF Thomas Terrizzi, prison litigation practitioner (moderator)

WMF Jeffrion L. Aubry, NY State Assemblyman, 35th A.D. of Queens County (2002-present)

WMF Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York

WMF Anthony P. Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School

WMF Michael Mushlin, Professor of Law, Pace University Law School

KEYNOTE and Commentary

WMF Brian Fischer, Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Keynote Speaker

WMF Soffiyah Elijah, Commentator