Events

Preston Shipp is the Associate Policy Director for the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. In this role, Preston provide strategic guidance, support, and leadership to states that are working to eliminate life without parole and other extreme sentences for children. He works directly with state-level advocates and legislators. In this book, Preston, a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Tennessee whose work kept people in prison, shares his story of how teaching incarcerated people made him rededicate his life to juvenile justice reform. Lunch will be provided, first come, first served. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice and the Duke Decarceration Project. This event was the part of the Wilson Center's Novel Justice Series, which invites authors of recent scholarship on the criminal legal system to discuss their work. For questions, please contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.