Wallingford Presbyterian Hosts Prison Reform Panel
“Turning Towards Justice: Prison Reform and Personal Action” will be the topic of a panel discussion at 1 p.m. on Sunday, October 20, at Wallingford Presbyterian Church, 110 Brookhaven Road. The presentation will focus on keeping youths out of prison, helping those in prison prepare for re-entry into society, and changing the overall system to lessen the number of incarcerated individuals.
The speakers will be prison reform activist Angela Bandi, Jerry Newell of Thresholds, Nelson Vecchione of the Delaware County Coalition for Prison Reform, and Keith Reeves, director of the Urban Inequality and Incarceration program at Swarthmore College’s Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. A reception follows. For more information, visit http://wallingfordpres.org.