Inside the Carceral State: Human Rights and the State of Exception in El Salvador

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Elizabeth G. Kennedy, a leading scholar on migration and human rights in Central America and the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Drawing on her extensive research, Dr. Kennedy will offer perspectives on current carceral policies, human rights, and the rule of law in El Salvador. Her talk, followed by a Q&A, will address drivers and outcomes of the country’s incredibly high incarceration rate, reports of torture and deprivation of food, water, and basic hygiene in prisons, and the suspension of basic due process guarantees. Dr. Kennedy will also highlight the role of social science research in assessing carceral policy within migration contexts and provide essential context to El Salvador’s highly publicized role in the U.S. immigration system.

This event is co-sponsored by the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

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