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News Release

Justice Studies Day is April 21, Judge Stegner to present

LEWISTON, Idaho – The Lewis-Clark State College Social Sciences Division and Justice Studies Club will host Justice Studies Day on Tuesday, April 21, in Sacajawea Hall on LCSC’s campus. The event will feature a host of guest speakers and will touch on the topics of policing, the courts, campus security, and corrections.

The day is broken into four sessions, all of which are free and open to the public.

In the first session, scheduled for 10:30-11:30 a.m. in Room 112, a five-person panel of administrators from the Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino and the North Idaho Correctional Institution will discuss the topic of institutional offender treatment and rehabilitation.

The second session, which runs from 12-1 p.m. in Room 115, will spotlight the Moscow Police Department and feature a presentation by Officers Shane Keen and Justin Deane.

From 1:30-2:30 p.m. in Room 115, Judge John Stegner, District Court judge in Idaho’s Second Judicial District and chair of the Idaho Criminal Justice Commission’s subcommittee on mental illness in the criminal justice system, will speak on the intersection of mental illness and the Criminal Justice System.

In the final session, held from 3-4 p.m. in Room 115, Barbara Pierce, director of LCSC’s campus security department, will present information about recognizing and preventing violence on campus.

For more information contact LCSC Professor Angela Wartel at 208-792-2851 or [email protected].