CAADP | Ending the Arizona Death Penalty

StopMax Arizona Statewide Networking Forum

Event at Pima Community College, Downtown Campus, on May 19, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

On Saturday, May 19, 2007, the American Friends Service Committee of Arizona will hold a kick-off event for its new campaign, StopMax Arizona. StopMax Arizona is AFSC's new campaign challenging the use of long-term solitary confinement. Thousands of people in Arizona are held in long-term solitary confinement, including youth and pre-trial detainees. The mental health consequences are dire and long lasting. This forum is an opportunity to learn about the realities of long-term solitary confinement and strategize how its use can be reduced in Arizona.

The event includes lunch, and some of the speakers will be:

Terry Kuppers, M.D., psychiatrist at the Wright Institute in Berkley, CA and author of Prison Madness, will be the key-note speaker, addressing mental health impacts of long-term solitary confinement.
Paris Carriger, released in 1999 after spending more than 20 years on death row in Arizona, will be among a panel of family members and former prisoners, speaking on the real-life impacts of placing people in long-term solitary confinement.

AFSC will also present its groundbreaking report, "Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons and Jails."

You can download the event flier by clicking here. Please note that the event, while open to all, requires an RSVP to Matt Lowen at (520) 623-9141 or mlowen@afsc.org.