You are welcome to join us for a conference dedicated to eliminating juvenile injustice in the courts starting Friday, December 6 in Orlando, FL at Barry University. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --------------------- ORLANDO CONFERENCE TO END JUVENILE INJUSTICE SPONSORED BY UNDER OUR WINGS ORGANIZATION ORLANDO, Fla. - Dec. 5, 2002 - /PRnetwire.com/ -- "Under Our Wings" is sponsoring a conference titled "A Global Approach to End Juvenile Injustice." This conference will feature speakers who are experts in various aspects of America s juvenile justice system, as well as juvenile justice experts from Canada. Together they will develop a pragmatic approach on how to end the injustices currently in the juvenile system. The conference will be held December 6-7, 2002 at Barry University in Orlando, Florida. The number of juveniles (aged 13-17) in adult facilities has increased by 35% from 1994 through 1997 and a growing number of juveniles are found on death row. These alarming trends and more will be addressed during the conference by covering high-profile cases such as, Nathaniel Brazill, Rebecca Falcon, Alex and Derek King, Eulalia Miguel, David Maggi, John Lee Malvo, Joshua Phillips, Evan Ramsey, Lionel Tate and Charles Andy Williams. Under Our Wings has secured an elite group of child rights advocates from such fields as psychology, religion, sociology, social work and law who will lead the interactive sessions. The list of speakers includes: § Professor Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate, Director of the Children and Family Justice Center Northwestern University School of Law § David Doi, Executive Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice, (a national organization) § Dr. James Garbarino, Co-Director of the Family Life Development Center, Cornell University § Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, Director, Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, Amnesty International § Steven W. Hawkins, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty § Catherine Latimer, Director General of Youth Justice Policy, Federal Department of Justice in Canada § Marc Schindler, staff attorney, Youth Law Center in Washington, DC, former prosecutor in the Nathaniel Brazill, Jr. case, now defending youthful offenders § Professor Victor Streib, Ohio Northern University School of Law, nationally recognized authority on the juvenile death penalty § Professor Irvin Waller, Criminology Department, University of Ottawa § Reverend Thomas Masters, Founder and President of Under Our Wings and spiritual adviser to Nathaniel Brazill, Jr. § Dr. Cynthia Price Cohen, Executive Director of ChildsRights International The conference will establish a platform position on how these sensitive child-based issues should be handled and determine resolutions for reform in regards to the prosecution of children as adults. About Under Our Wings Under Our Wings is a grass roots coalition dedicated to ending the prosecution and adjudication of children as adults and to eradicating the juvenile death penalty in the United States. The goal of the organization is to inform, empower, and inspire others to get involved in the effort to bring about these changes -- always keeping in mind that the child offenders must be treated as the children that they are rather than as the adults that they are not. For additional information, please visit www.underourwings.org. Media Contact info: Mary Schelich 949-574-4186 marys@derekandalexking.org # # # FL//Orlando Conference to End Juvenile Injustice Sponsored by Under Our Wings Organization ref: http://www.send2press.com/2archive/pr_02_1205-ourwings.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------