Martin Horn, director of New York State Sentencing Commission, to lecture on prison reform and human dignity | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Martin Horn, director of New York State Sentencing Commission, to lecture on prison reform and human dignity Martin Horn, director of New York State Sentencing Commission, to lecture on prison reform and human dignity Published: September 29, 2014 Author: Michael O. Garvey Martin F. Horn Martin F. Horn, executive director of the New York State Sentencing Commission and Distinguished Lecturer in Corrections at the John Jay College of City University of New York, will give a lecture titled “Prison Reform: Problematic Necessity” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 (Wednesday) in the University of Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall Auditorium. Horn’s lecture, sponsored by Notre Dame’s Institute for Church Life (ICL) as the 2014 Human Dignity Lecture, will survey the history of prison reform efforts and argue that because imprisonment runs counter to human nature, prisons always have been and always will be flawed institutions. While acknowledging the impossibility of perfection, Horn also will suggest a reasonable path for prison reform. From 2002 to 2009, Horn served as commissioner both of the New York City Department of Probation and the New York City Department of Correction, appointed to both positions by then New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. During his tenure, jail violence, suicides and recidivism rates for adults on probation were all greatly reduced. An initiative of the ICL’s Human Dignity Project, the annual Human Diginity lectures are intended to make the idea of human dignity accessible to people of all faiths or no faith, and to exhort students, faculty and all others in the Notre Dame community and beyond to recognize their own human dignity and respect that of others. Contact: Jessica Keating, 574-631-9781, Jessica.F.Keating.34@nd.edu Posted In: Faith Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related October 03, 2022 dCEC to Award 2023 ND Evangelium Vitae Medal to Robert P. George September 22, 2022 In memoriam: Rev. Richard Warner, C.S.C., longtime leader for Notre Dame, Congregation of Holy Cross September 15, 2022 In new book on global Catholicism, Provost John McGreevy explores modern history, current challenges of the Church September 15, 2022 Death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean to speak at Notre Dame September 14, 2022 Apostolic nuncio to Great Britain to deliver the 2022 Keeley Vatican Lecture For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn