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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 177: Miriam Krinsky, Changing Prosecutors from Within

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|Date: December 05, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 177: Miriam Krinsky, Changing Prosecutors from Within

Following the primary elections, reformers were braced for setbacks in the reform prosecutor movement, bu ...

Following the primary elections, reformers were braced for setbacks in the reform prosecutor movement, but a strange thing happened this November—that setback never came. Everyday Injustice spoke with ...

December 05, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 175: A Look at Critical Resentencing Opportunities in California

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|Date: November 21, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 175: A Look at Critical Resentencing Opportunities in California

https://youtu.be/IuHxdml02Xo This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Elliot Hosman, the Prison Advoc ...

https://youtu.be/IuHxdml02Xo This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Elliot Hosman, the Prison Advocacy Coordinator at Ella Baker Center, about their work on behalf of resentencing. California ha ...

November 21, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 174: UCSB Underground Scholar Program for Formerly Incarcerated

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|Date: November 14, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 174: UCSB Underground Scholar Program for Formerly Incarcerated

https://youtu.be/bk_uuhy2ZwA One of the important ways to disrupt mass incarceration is to get formerly i ...

https://youtu.be/bk_uuhy2ZwA One of the important ways to disrupt mass incarceration is to get formerly incarcerated people to get college and graduate degrees. Such programs help to greatly reduce r ...

November 14, 2022
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Commentary: The Left Has Already Lost the War and Will Lose the Elections Today

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|Date: November 08, 2022
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Commentary: The Left Has Already Lost the War and Will Lose the Elections Today

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I was having an unrelated conversation yesterday and the person ma ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I was having an unrelated conversation yesterday and the person made the argument that one of the reasons that Democrats are going to lose badly today is that th ...

November 08, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 167: Max Szabo Talks Reform Prosecutors

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|Date: September 26, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 167: Max Szabo Talks Reform Prosecutors

https://youtu.be/aWygA3oDEJ0 Max Szabo has been on the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement ...

https://youtu.be/aWygA3oDEJ0 Max Szabo has been on the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement for years – hired as the communications director for George Gascón in San Francisco, he then le ...

September 26, 2022
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Groups Call for Abolition of DBI in US; File Human Rights Complaint with UN

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|Date: September 16, 2022
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Groups Call for Abolition of DBI in US; File Human Rights Complaint with UN

Groups argue “Death by Incarceration” is torture and violates ban on racial discrimination by David M. Gr ...

Groups argue “Death by Incarceration” is torture and violates ban on racial discrimination by David M. Greenwald Executive Editor New York, NY – Since the 1970s, the reliance on sentences of death by ...

September 16, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 165: California Policy Lab Examines Three Strikes Law

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|Date: September 12, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 165: California Policy Lab Examines Three Strikes Law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4Fi2LAf-k A new report released in August by the nonpartisan California ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4Fi2LAf-k A new report released in August by the nonpartisan California Policy Lab (CPL) found “that thousands of Californians saw their prison sentences lengthened b ...

September 12, 2022
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New Data Shows Effects of Mass Incarceration on Californian Communities

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|Date: September 06, 2022
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New Data Shows Effects of Mass Incarceration on Californian Communities

By Wayne Chan SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a new report, “Where people in prison come from: The geography of ma ...

By Wayne Chan SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a new report, “Where people in prison come from: The geography of mass incarceration in California,” the Essie Justice Group and the Prison Policy Initiative provi ...

September 06, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Courts Have Ruled that Sentencing Kids to Die in Prison Is Cruel and Unusual. Now They’re Reconsidering When Adulthood Starts.

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|Date: August 23, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Courts Have Ruled that Sentencing Kids to Die in Prison Is Cruel and Unusual. Now They’re Reconsidering When Adulthood Starts.

With U.S. taxpayers now spending upwards of $81 billion annually on incarceration, treating 18-year-olds ...

With U.S. taxpayers now spending upwards of $81 billion annually on incarceration, treating 18-year-olds as adults has staggering costs. By Miriam Krinsky and Rebecca Blair Sheldon Mattis was 18 year ...

August 23, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 163: Kanya Bennett and Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

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|Date: August 22, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 163: Kanya Bennett and Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Kanya Bennett of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Huma ...

This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Kanya Bennett of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The Vision for Justice 2020 focused on core principles of decarceration, police refo ...

August 22, 2022
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With Recall Effort Failing, Gascón Turns to What He Was Elected to Do

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|Date: August 19, 2022
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With Recall Effort Failing, Gascón Turns to What He Was Elected to Do

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – DA George Gascón this week learned that the reca ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – DA George Gascón this week learned that the recall effort against him fell short of the required number of citizens and, on Wednesday at SEIU L ...

August 19, 2022
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Commentary: Why Even Heinous Crimes Can Generate Extreme Sentences

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|Date: August 18, 2022
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Commentary: Why Even Heinous Crimes Can Generate Extreme Sentences

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Once upon a time we know what would have happened with the men who ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Once upon a time we know what would have happened with the men who hunted down and killed Ahmaud Arbery. We know it because we saw the men who killed Emmett Til ...

August 18, 2022
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Guest Commentary: California’s ‘Three Strikes’ Law Still Carries a Devastating Human and Financial Cost – End It Now

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|Date: August 16, 2022
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Guest Commentary: California’s ‘Three Strikes’ Law Still Carries a Devastating Human and Financial Cost – End It Now

By Erwin Chemerinsky, Gil Garcetti and Miriam Aroni Krinsky The stories of those who have served three-st ...

By Erwin Chemerinsky, Gil Garcetti and Miriam Aroni Krinsky The stories of those who have served three-strikes sentences in California are heartbreaking and should trouble us all. Leandro Andrade was ...

August 16, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 162: George Gascón Discusses Facing a Possible Recall

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|Date: August 15, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 162: George Gascón Discusses Facing a Possible Recall

In 2019, George Gascón resigned from his position as San Francisco DA, moved to Los Angeles and ran for D ...

In 2019, George Gascón resigned from his position as San Francisco DA, moved to Los Angeles and ran for DA as a reformer against incumbent Jackie Lacey. Gascón had gone from a traditional “tough on c ...

August 15, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 161: Stephen Munkelt from CACJ

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|Date: August 08, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 161: Stephen Munkelt from CACJ

https://youtu.be/FRnni0xjxPE California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (CACJ) is a statewide association ...

https://youtu.be/FRnni0xjxPE California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (CACJ) is a statewide association of criminal defense attorneys, who help advocate for justice in the legislature, the courts and ...

August 08, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 160 – Akhi Johnson Discussing Reshaping Prosecution Initiative

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|Date: August 01, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 160 – Akhi Johnson Discussing Reshaping Prosecution Initiative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOHJLB1Pft4 This week on Everyday Injustice we visit with Akhi Johnson, D ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOHJLB1Pft4 This week on Everyday Injustice we visit with Akhi Johnson, Director of the Vera Institute of Justice’s Reshaping Prosecution project. Vera just issued a n ...

August 01, 2022
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My View: Since the 1970s California Has Shifted from Prioritizing Education to Incarcerating People

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|Date: July 30, 2022
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My View: Since the 1970s California Has Shifted from Prioritizing Education to Incarcerating People

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week I came across some stunning data—even though I had impli ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week I came across some stunning data—even though I had implicitly known this to be the case, nevertheless seeing the actual data was stunning. In 2021-22, ...

July 30, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Prison Doesn’t Work – In One Graphic

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|Date: July 25, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Prison Doesn’t Work – In One Graphic

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor They say a picture is worth one thousand words—a good graphic migh ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor They say a picture is worth one thousand words—a good graphic might be worth even more than that. I pulled this graphic from CDCR because it shows the breakdown ...

July 25, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 155: Emily Galvin-Almanza on Decarceration

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|Date: June 27, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 155: Emily Galvin-Almanza on Decarceration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-qvqnNAzI This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Emily Galvin-Alm ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-qvqnNAzI This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Emily Galvin-Almanza—she’s a former public defender, clerked for Judge Thelton Henderson, worked for the Stanfo ...

June 27, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 151: Dan Canon on Obergefell and Plea Bargains

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|Date: June 20, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 151: Dan Canon on Obergefell and Plea Bargains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtgiI-U4iw Dan Canon is a civil rights attorney and a Professor at the L ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtgiI-U4iw Dan Canon is a civil rights attorney and a Professor at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. He has already played a huge role in history as one of those a ...

June 20, 2022
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