Wkly Mtg: George McKinnis - Sep 8
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 Sep 08, 2016 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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SPEAKER: George McKinnis – Sep 8
Restorative Justice
Long-time Bronxville Judge George C. McKinnis, has initiated an alternative sentencing program that aims to help criminal offenders rebuild positive lives. This program is called Community Restorative Justice and he'll speak to us about it at this meeting.
Community Restorative Justice
The Bronxville Justice Court, led by long time Bronxville Judge George C. McKinnis, has initiated an alternative sentencing program that aims to help criminal offenders rebuild positive lives. This program is called Community Restorative Justice (“CRJ”).
CRJ has been installed in the Court in response to mass incarceration with its high rates of criminal recidivism, annual costs that exceed an Ivy League college education, and the high cost to human potential caused by the conditions that prevail in our overcrowded prisons combined with the stigma of criminal conviction and incarceration that inhibits employment.
CRJ enables the Bronxville Court to provide eligible defendants with an individualized program that may include counseling, supervised community service and mentoring, educational or vocational training, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, family counseling and addressing school problems and literacy. When the victim of the crime agrees, a restorative justice conference will be included, in which an offender faces his or her victim in a facilitated session to hear the impact of the crime and to offer the opportunity to take accountability for the criminal act and address with the victim the harm the defendant caused.
George C. McKinnis
George C. McKinnis concentrates in the legal, financial, intellectual property and international trade issues of emerging technology companies. Mr. McKinnis has aided in multiple startups as a lawyer and in some cases as a principal. He has been a member of four boards of directors of technology companies. Due to his long career in technology, Mr. McKinnis has access to a wide network of technology and related business experts.
Before establishing his own law offices, Mr. McKinnis was a senior ITT Headquarters attorney responsible for domestic and overseas telecommunications, electronics and computer industries and was General Counsel of ITT’s Telecommunications Research and Development Laboratories. Before joining ITT, he was a Vice President and General Counsel of an overseas merchant bank and was trained in corporate and financial matters by a leading New York City law firm.
His education includes University of Oklahoma, BA; University of Michigan Law School, JD; Parker School of Comparative and International Law, Columbia Law School;and Summer Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School
He is a member of the New York City Bar Association, the NY and Westchester Magistrates Associations, the American Bar Association, and is licensed to practice in New York and Connecticut.
George McKinnis and his wife live in Bronxville, NY.
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Meetings convene 11:45 am with starting bell at 12 noon.