Panel to discuss justice system, racial inequality

Several local social-action groups are teaming up to sponsor a panel discussion about incarceration and racial inequality next week. "Mass Incarceration & Racial Inequality: The New Jim Crow" will be held Nov. 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Hunneman Hall at the Public Library of Brookline, 361 Washington St. Speakers will include Lois Ahrens, founder of the Real Cost of Prisons Project; Carl Williams, a racial-justice lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts; and former B...