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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 100: Manhattan DA Candidate Tahanie Aboushi Talks Reform

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|Date: April 05, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 100: Manhattan DA Candidate Tahanie Aboushi Talks Reform

Cy Vance announced he would not seek reelection after four terms as DA of NY. Whoever succeeds him will b ...

Cy Vance announced he would not seek reelection after four terms as DA of NY. Whoever succeeds him will be just the fourth DA in the last 80 years. Vance has left a mixed legacy - pushing through some ...

April 05, 2021
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Baltimore’s COVID Policies Expand after One-Year-Old Experiment Results in Decreasing Arrests

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|Date: April 04, 2021
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Baltimore’s COVID Policies Expand after One-Year-Old Experiment Results in Decreasing Arrests

By Alexander Ramirez BALTIMORE, MD – In response to the COVID-19 outbreak that still persists today, the ...

By Alexander Ramirez BALTIMORE, MD – In response to the COVID-19 outbreak that still persists today, the city of Baltimore has since implemented new policies in response to the needs and dangers that ...

April 04, 2021
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Commentary: Why I Will No Longer Support Hate Crimes Enhancements

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|Date: March 23, 2021
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Commentary: Why I Will No Longer Support Hate Crimes Enhancements

By David M. Greenwald We live in an evolving world and anyone who has set beliefs locks themselves in to ...

By David M. Greenwald We live in an evolving world and anyone who has set beliefs locks themselves in to what might have been dated reasoning or responses to past situations. When I worked in DC in t ...

March 23, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts

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|Date: March 08, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts

By Miriam Krinsky and Leo Beletsky Drug overdoses dramatically rose during the pandemic to make 2020 our ...

By Miriam Krinsky and Leo Beletsky Drug overdoses dramatically rose during the pandemic to make 2020 our deadliest year so far. Overdoses claimed the lives of 81,000 Americans in the 12 months up to M ...

March 08, 2021
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California Innocence Project, Northern California Innocence Project Webinar: Panel Discusses Progressive Prosecution

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|Date: February 26, 2021
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California Innocence Project, Northern California Innocence Project Webinar: Panel Discusses Progressive Prosecution

By Linhchi Nguyen CALIFORNIA - What are progressive prosecutors and what policies should they be advocati ...

By Linhchi Nguyen CALIFORNIA - What are progressive prosecutors and what policies should they be advocating was the topic of a live webinar, sponsored by the California Innocence Project (CIP). The pa ...

February 26, 2021
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California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak

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|Date: February 23, 2021
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California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak

By Alex Morgan and Mianna Muscat SAN FRANCISCO— UC Hastings College of the Law held its third and final d ...

By Alex Morgan and Mianna Muscat SAN FRANCISCO— UC Hastings College of the Law held its third and final day last week of a webinar series entitled California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, H ...

February 23, 2021
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San Francisco Awarded $2 Million Grant to Reduce Over-Incarceration and Fight Systemic Racism

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|Date: February 14, 2021
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San Francisco Awarded $2 Million Grant to Reduce Over-Incarceration and Fight Systemic Racism

By Mianna Muscat SAN FRANCISCO – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded San Francisco ...

By Mianna Muscat SAN FRANCISCO – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded San Francisco a $2 million grant through the Safety and Justice Challenge, the Foundation’s $246 million nati ...

February 14, 2021
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Community Members, Advocacy Groups Thank Public Defenders, Calling for Increased Funding

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|Date: February 09, 2021
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Community Members, Advocacy Groups Thank Public Defenders, Calling for Increased Funding

By Hannah Blome CALIFORNIA – California community members and judicial laborers led a virtual discussion ...

By Hannah Blome CALIFORNIA – California community members and judicial laborers led a virtual discussion last Friday entitled “How Public Defender Offices Implement Policy to End Mass Incarceration,” ...

February 09, 2021
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Analysis: The True Meaning of Restorative Justice Under Chesa Boudin

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|Date: February 07, 2021
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Analysis: The True Meaning of Restorative Justice Under Chesa Boudin

By Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco’s District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, ran for office in ...

By Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco’s District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, ran for office in November 2019, he focused his campaign on ending mass incarceration with restorative justice m ...

February 07, 2021
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Possible Solutions to Prediction that Mass Incarceration will Last for 60 Years

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|Date: January 28, 2021
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Possible Solutions to Prediction that Mass Incarceration will Last for 60 Years

By Avalon Amaral and Mia Machado After a decade of insufficient and incohesive decarceration efforts, the ...

By Avalon Amaral and Mia Machado After a decade of insufficient and incohesive decarceration efforts, the current coronavirus pandemic and its ongoing public health crisis underscore the need for mean ...

January 28, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 88: Adnan Khan Discusses COVID in Prisons

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|Date: January 22, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 88: Adnan Khan Discusses COVID in Prisons

This week's guest on Everyday Injustice, Adnan Khan, is the Executive Director of ReStore Justice, which ...

This week's guest on Everyday Injustice, Adnan Khan, is the Executive Director of ReStore Justice, which he co-founded while incarcerated. While in prison, he inspired and helped to launch legislation ...

January 22, 2021
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Current, Former Elected U.S. Prosecutors Back LA DA Gascón, Oppose Lawsuit Opposing Criminal Justice Reforms

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|Date: January 18, 2021
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Current, Former Elected U.S. Prosecutors Back LA DA Gascón, Oppose Lawsuit Opposing Criminal Justice Reforms

By Lauren Smith LOS ANGELES – More than 65 current and formerly elected prosecutors from across the U.S. ...

By Lauren Smith LOS ANGELES – More than 65 current and formerly elected prosecutors from across the U.S. have filed an amicus brief in support of criminal justice reforms by newly-elected LA District ...

January 18, 2021
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Guest Commentary: 50 Years Into the War on Drugs, Biden-Harris can Fix the Harm It Created

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|Date: January 09, 2021
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Guest Commentary: 50 Years Into the War on Drugs, Biden-Harris can Fix the Harm It Created

The war on drugs has failed, and Americans on the right and left are ready for it to end. By Udi Ofer Thi ...

The war on drugs has failed, and Americans on the right and left are ready for it to end. By Udi Ofer This year marks 50 years since President Richard Nixon declared drugs “public enemy number one,” l ...

January 09, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 86: Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby

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|Date: January 06, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 86: Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby

Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby joined the Everyday Injustice podcast to discuss her office ...

Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby joined the Everyday Injustice podcast to discuss her office's new sentencing review unit. The unit will review cases of certain incarcerated people to de ...

January 06, 2021
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Commentary: Time After Time, Discretion in Criminal Legal System Leads to Huge Racial Disparities

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|Date: January 01, 2021
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Commentary: Time After Time, Discretion in Criminal Legal System Leads to Huge Racial Disparities

By David Greenwald We have seen in a wide variety of areas that, where police and prosecutors exercise di ...

By David Greenwald We have seen in a wide variety of areas that, where police and prosecutors exercise discretion, it leads to huge disparities between whites and people of color. We have seen it loc ...

January 01, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig Tried to Walk the Walk, but Couldn’t

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|Date: December 14, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig Tried to Walk the Walk, but Couldn’t

By David M. Greenwald George Gascón last week week was inaugurated in as Los Angeles’ DA. On day one, h ...

By David M. Greenwald George Gascón last week week was inaugurated in as Los Angeles’ DA. On day one, he unveiled a revolutionary plan on a host of fronts—one of the most spectacular was his resente ...

December 14, 2020
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San Francisco DA, Fair and Just Prosecution Founder in Webinar on Racial Injustice and Mass Incarceration

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|Date: November 25, 2020
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San Francisco DA, Fair and Just Prosecution Founder in Webinar on Racial Injustice and Mass Incarceration

By Evie Sun and Cailin Garcia MANHATTAN, NY -- Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) hosted a webinar ov ...

By Evie Sun and Cailin Garcia MANHATTAN, NY -- Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) hosted a webinar over Zoom and Facebook live to discuss mass incarceration and racial injustice in the criminal ju ...

November 25, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Voters’ Decisions on Propositions 17 and 20 Bring Hope to Criminal Justice Reform in California

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|Date: November 23, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Voters’ Decisions on Propositions 17 and 20 Bring Hope to Criminal Justice Reform in California

By Sarah Hopkins This election cycle, Californians were presented with two propositions on their ballots— ...

By Sarah Hopkins This election cycle, Californians were presented with two propositions on their ballots—17 and 20—that are of major significance in the quest for true criminal justice reform. Califor ...

November 23, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Community Supervision, Once Intended to Help Offenders, Contributes More to Mass Incarceration

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|Date: November 21, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Community Supervision, Once Intended to Help Offenders, Contributes More to Mass Incarceration

Justice officials are recognizing that community supervision can be a tripwire that perpetuates incarcera ...

Justice officials are recognizing that community supervision can be a tripwire that perpetuates incarceration based on crimeless technical violations By Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Vincent Schiraldi One ...

November 21, 2020
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The Sentencing Project Highlights Youth Incarceration During Pandemic

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|Date: November 21, 2020
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The Sentencing Project Highlights Youth Incarceration During Pandemic

By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – Josh Rovner, Senior Advocacy Associate at The Sentencing Project, a res ...

By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – Josh Rovner, Senior Advocacy Associate at The Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy group advocating for decarceration, hosted a webinar this week discussing yo ...

November 21, 2020
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