Heading to this today around noon:
Conference: Finding a Cure: Providing Adequate Healthcare to Immigrants in Detention
Brooklyn Law School, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
OVERVIEW
Over 300,000 immigrants a year are detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. These immigrants are held at facilities run by, or under contract with, USICE. In recent years, studies by community-based organizations, the government, and the media have identified systemic deficiencies in the provision of healthcare to immigrant detainees and have described incidents of inadequate medical treatment, suffering and, in some cases, death. This forum will grapple with the complex nature of the problem of providing healthcare to detained immigrants, including language barriers, costs, and government and institutional perceptions of the appropriate level of care. Experts from the government, medical doctors, and community-based immigrant advocacy organizations will discuss the scope of the problem, its public policy implications, and possible solutions grounded in administrative and legislative reform as well as litigation.
The forum is co-sponsored by the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program; the Safe Harbor Project; and the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy at Brooklyn Law School.
AGENDA
12:00 pm Luncheon
Welcoming Remarks
12:45 pm From Silence to Sick Call: How a Trail
of Undisclosed Deaths in Immigration
Detention Revealed a System in Distress
1:30 pm Our Challenge, Our Opportunity:
A System of Civil Detention
2:00 pm Meeting the Medical Needs of Immigrants
in Detention
2:45 pm Administrative Challenge and Response
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Policy and Advocacy Initiatives
4:30 pm Finding a Cure: Mapping Solutions
5:45 pm Reception
SPEAKERS
Nina Bernstein
The New York Times
Andrea Black
Detention Watch Network
Phyllis Coven
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Nina Dozoretz
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Tom Jawetz
Committee on Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives
Allen Keller
Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Cheryl Little
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Brittney Nystrom
National Immigration Forum
Dora B. Schriro
New York City Department of Correction
David M. Shapiro
ACLU National Prison Project
Homer Venters
NYU Center for Health and Human Rights
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
Rikers Island
