Attempting to Improve Outcomes for Incarcerated People: A New Zealand Experiment

Grantee Lauren-Brooke Eisen visits the University of Richmond for their international education week centered on Aotearoa New Zealand. Eisen will present on “Attempting to Improve Outcomes for Incarcerated People: A New Zealand Experiment” and engage with students throughout the week.

Eisen is Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve systems of democracy and justice. Eisen works in the Justice Program at the Brennan Center, where she focuses on improving the criminal justice process through legal reforms, specifically how the criminal justice system is funded. She is the author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017).