Ray and Kay Eckstein Hall
1215 West Michigan Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233
United States
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Sharon Dolovich, professor of law at UCLA and director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program, will deliver the 2025 Barrock Lecture on Criminal Law - Prisons, Punishment, and Correctional Officers.
Tuesday, May 13
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Marquette Law School, Eckstein Hall
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5:00 to 6:00 p.m. ~ Lecture, Lubar Center
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6:00 to 6:30 p.m. ~ Reception, Zilber Forum
1 CLE credit
Prisons, Punishment, and Correctional Officers
The experience of the incarcerated is undeniably central to any adequate understanding of the carceral project. At the same time, another sizeable population is also directly affected by the American enthusiasm for locking people up: correctional officers. Whatever one thinks of the particular shape imprisonment takes in the United States, the nation today has more than 6,100 prisons, jails, and detention centers. Yet surprisingly little attention is paid to the toll working in prison takes on the approximately 350,000 men and women we rely on to make these institutions function. This lecture will highlight some of the many ways working inside prisons negatively impacts the physical and mental health of correctional officers—and, by extension, their families and communities. It will also consider how expanding the lens to include the many harms experienced by correctional officers might help change and enlarge our collective critical picture of the prison and the use of incarceration as punishment.
Sharon Dolovich is professor of law at UCLA and director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program. She has written widely on criminal law, the constitutional law of prisons, and other post-conviction topics. Along with her extensive scholarship, Professor Dolovich is recognized for her teaching — receiving, for example, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for excellence in this sphere. She holds a B.A. from Queen’s University in Ontario, a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
This lecture series remembers George Barrock, L’31, and Margaret Barrock.
