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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 68: Melissa Mark-Viverito Runs for Congress in the Bronx

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|Date: May 22, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 68: Melissa Mark-Viverito Runs for Congress in the Bronx

Melissa Mark-Viverito, born in Puerto Rico, has been a councilmember in New York City, representing areas ...

Melissa Mark-Viverito, born in Puerto Rico, has been a councilmember in New York City, representing areas of the Bronx for several terms, and she is running to replace longtime House of Representative ...

May 22, 2020
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COVID and Our Broken Justice System

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|Date: May 12, 2020
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COVID and Our Broken Justice System

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal justice reformers have been hustling to get people out ...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal justice reformers have been hustling to get people out of jails and prisons. On Monday, Real Justice held a discussion with DA’s Chesa Boudin (San F ...

May 12, 2020
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Restorative Justice International Podcast with Vincent Schiraldi of the Columbia Justice Lab

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|Date: May 02, 2020
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Restorative Justice International Podcast with Vincent Schiraldi of the Columbia Justice Lab

Vincent Schiraldi is a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia School of Social Work and co-Director of ...

Vincent Schiraldi is a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia School of Social Work and co-Director of the Columbia Justice Lab. He has extensive experience in public life: founding the policy thin ...

May 02, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 63 – Jodie Sinclair and Her Book ‘Love Behind Bars’

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|Date: April 24, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 63 – Jodie Sinclair and Her Book ‘Love Behind Bars’

In 1981, Jodie Sinclair was a journalist visiting the Angola Prison in Louisiana to do a story on the new ...

In 1981, Jodie Sinclair was a journalist visiting the Angola Prison in Louisiana to do a story on the newly-reinstated death penalty. She met Billy Sinclair, who had been sentenced to death for his ro ...

April 24, 2020
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Dade Police Switch to Citations Rather than Arrests For Misdemeanors

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|Date: March 22, 2020
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Dade Police Switch to Citations Rather than Arrests For Misdemeanors

One of America’s largest police forces says it’s drastically reducing the number of people it arrests dur ...

One of America’s largest police forces says it’s drastically reducing the number of people it arrests during the coronavirus pandemic. By Jerry Lannelli The Miami-Dade County Police Department, one of ...

March 22, 2020
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Critics of Progressive Judges Find a Willing Ally in Local Newsrooms

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|Date: March 15, 2020
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Critics of Progressive Judges Find a Willing Ally in Local Newsrooms

With few exceptions, news outlets in Harris County, Texas, spotlight singular instances of crime to alleg ...

With few exceptions, news outlets in Harris County, Texas, spotlight singular instances of crime to allege that legal reform policy is a threat to the public. by Jonathan Ben-Menachem The public’s per ...

March 15, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Introduced in Legislature to End Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

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|Date: March 12, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Introduced in Legislature to End Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

Assemblymember Ash Kalra officially introduced the California Racial Justice Act, a landmark bill that ad ...

Assemblymember Ash Kalra officially introduced the California Racial Justice Act, a landmark bill that addresses racial discrimination in criminal sentencing and convictions. The action was part of t ...

March 12, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 49 – ACLU’s Udi Ofer Talks Justice Reform

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|Date: March 11, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 49 – ACLU’s Udi Ofer Talks Justice Reform

Udi Ofer is the ACLU Director of the Justice Division and Deputy National Political Director. We talked w ...

Udi Ofer is the ACLU Director of the Justice Division and Deputy National Political Director. We talked with him about recent elections and their implications for criminal justice reform, as well as t ...

March 11, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 48 – Contra Costa DA Diana Becton

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|Date: March 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 48 – Contra Costa DA Diana Becton

Diana Becton took an unusual route to become a prosecutor. She had served 22 years as a judge in Contra C ...

Diana Becton took an unusual route to become a prosecutor. She had served 22 years as a judge in Contra Costa County before the Board of Supervisors in 2017 appointed her interim DA, then she was elec ...

March 09, 2020
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De-Escalating Police Response to Mental Health Crises

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|Date: March 06, 2020
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De-Escalating Police Response to Mental Health Crises

At last week's Justice Collaborative symposium, Justice Guarantee Convening, a panel of speakers addresse ...

At last week's Justice Collaborative symposium, Justice Guarantee Convening, a panel of speakers addressed the issue of deescalating police response: Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, Melina ...

March 06, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 47 – Jonathan Rapping and Gideon’s Promise

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|Date: March 05, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 47 – Jonathan Rapping and Gideon’s Promise

Jonathan Rapping is a nationally renowned criminal justice innovator who is the founder and president of ...

Jonathan Rapping is a nationally renowned criminal justice innovator who is the founder and president of Gideon’s Promise, a 501(c)(3) non-profit public defender advocacy organization that provides tr ...

March 05, 2020
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Addressing Incarceration, Extreme Sentencing, and Structural Racism in Our Criminal Legal System

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|Date: March 04, 2020
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Addressing Incarceration, Extreme Sentencing, and Structural Racism in Our Criminal Legal System

Last week the Justice Collaborative held an all-day seminar, the Justice Guarantee Event in San Francisco ...

Last week the Justice Collaborative held an all-day seminar, the Justice Guarantee Event in San Francisco. At the event, SF DA Chesa Boudin made his big announcement, as additional activists, scholar ...

March 04, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 44: Senator Nancy Skinner

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|Date: February 24, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 44: Senator Nancy Skinner

Senator Nancy Skinner has authored some of the most important criminal justice legislation in the state. ...

Senator Nancy Skinner has authored some of the most important criminal justice legislation in the state. Senator Skinner represents, among other places, Berkeley in the State Senate. Prior to her elec ...

February 24, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Earns a Big Endorsement from LA Times

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|Date: February 24, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Earns a Big Endorsement from LA Times

We are just about a week out from the primary election and, aside from the presidential race, one of the ...

We are just about a week out from the primary election and, aside from the presidential race, one of the big races we are following is the Los Angeles District Attorney race. We were down in Los Ange ...

February 24, 2020
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Tulsa County DA, Staunch Opponent of Criminal Justice Reform, Hit with Bar Complaint for Allowing Unlicensed Interns to Prosecute in Over 150 Cases

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|Date: February 21, 2020
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Tulsa County DA, Staunch Opponent of Criminal Justice Reform, Hit with Bar Complaint for Allowing Unlicensed Interns to Prosecute in Over 150 Cases

The Tulsa County DA’s Office used interns and other non-lawyers to prosecute perhaps as many as 100 to 15 ...

The Tulsa County DA’s Office used interns and other non-lawyers to prosecute perhaps as many as 100 to 150 cases between November 2017 and November 2018, the Frontier reported in an article published ...

February 21, 2020
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The Path to Liberation Does Not Go through Pretrial Punishment

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|Date: February 16, 2020
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The Path to Liberation Does Not Go through Pretrial Punishment

By Vaidya Gullapalli On Monday, a caller to the Brian Lehrer Show expressed his discomfort with the curre ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli On Monday, a caller to the Brian Lehrer Show expressed his discomfort with the current debate about recent bail reforms in New York. The caller, a lawyer from near Lake Placid, Ne ...

February 16, 2020
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Repairing Centuries of Criminal Injustice: Prosecutors Are Called to Action

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|Date: February 07, 2020
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Repairing Centuries of Criminal Injustice: Prosecutors Are Called to Action

By Joselin Hernandez The Executive Session on Reimagining the Role of the Prosecutor in the Community rec ...

By Joselin Hernandez The Executive Session on Reimagining the Role of the Prosecutor in the Community recently published “Race and Prosecution,” a paper by Angela Davis, John Chisholm, and David Noble ...

February 07, 2020
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New Article Proposes the Formation of the Defender General’s Office, Opposite of the Solicitor General’s Office

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|Date: February 04, 2020
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New Article Proposes the Formation of the Defender General’s Office, Opposite of the Solicitor General’s Office

By Linh Nguyen An article published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review proposes the creation of ...

By Linh Nguyen An article published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review proposes the creation of a new office opposite of that of the solicitor general. Supreme Court Justices argue that many ...

February 04, 2020
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Congresswoman Proposes a Complete Reconstruction of the Criminal Legal System

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|Date: February 02, 2020
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Congresswoman Proposes a Complete Reconstruction of the Criminal Legal System

By Maxwell C. Myrhum With the hopes of dropping the incarceration rate of Americans more than 80 percent, ...

By Maxwell C. Myrhum With the hopes of dropping the incarceration rate of Americans more than 80 percent, a Massachusetts Congresswomen has proposed sweeping changes to the United States criminal lega ...

February 02, 2020
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A ‘Massive Blind Spot’ in the Supreme Court Fixed by a ‘Defender General’?

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|Date: February 01, 2020
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A ‘Massive Blind Spot’ in the Supreme Court Fixed by a ‘Defender General’?

By Brittany Mason Every day, state courts' criminal defenses have long been governed by the standards set ...

By Brittany Mason Every day, state courts' criminal defenses have long been governed by the standards set by the Supreme Court, but in recent years this may have been proven to be ineffective. At the ...

February 01, 2020
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