Thursday 17th April 2008, 6:00pm
'The Drummond Hunter Memorial Lecture'
The St George’s Centre, Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BG
NICHOLAS YARRIS began to call for social reform the moment of his release before the world press. In the first year of freedom after spending 23 years in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT on DEATH ROW, Nicholas Yarris has become one of the most sought after public speakers in the world.
With an articulate and passionate ability to reach audiences of millions, Nicholas Yarris has crystalised the lessons for Governments and businesses and the academic world, to change.
Chair: The Right Hon Lord Mackay of Drumadoon
Lord Mackay is a Senator of the College of Justice, Life Peer, Privy Counsellor and former Lord Advocate
Free Admission - Light Refreshments
Previous Lecture Series can be viewed:
I am under no moral obligation to conform to, or in any way accept, the sentence imposed upon me.
Emily Pankhurst
`No, no!' said the Queen. `Sentence first - verdict afterwards.'
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
attrib. Fyodor Dostoevsky