Over at our friends at Sentencing Law and Policy is the following:
They received a request to help identify persons struggling with the negative collateral consequences of a criminal conviction. The request came from Catherine Day, a producer at HuffPost Live, a new online broadcast network and expansion of the Huffington Post community, and here are the specifics she provided:
On Tuesday (Sept 4, 2012), as part of our coverage of the DNC Shadow Convention we will be hosting a live discussion called "Opportunity Lost: Affirmative Access" which will be about how people convicted of nonviolent crimes, such as drug felons are not able to break the negative cycles in their lives due to the loss of access they have to student loans and federal housing.
We need to find guests who would like to share their personal story about how their criminal conviction has made it nearly impossible for them to improve their life due to the inability to afford schooling or housing. In order to participate in this discussion, each guest needs to be able to have access to a webcam with a strong internet connection on Tuesday at approximately 1:30 PM EST. We would need to do a camera test in advance at the same computer and in the same location that the guest would be for the segment to make sure everything works alright.
If you would like to share your story, and be a part of this very important discussion on this broken part of our country, please email me at Catherine.Day@huffingtonpost.com .
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