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Everyday Injustice Episode 149: Santa Clara Law Professor David Ball

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|Date: April 04, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 149: Santa Clara Law Professor David Ball

This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Santa Clara Law Professor David Ball. Among the topics we d ...

This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Santa Clara Law Professor David Ball. Among the topics we discuss are his work on the Corrections Committee of the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section where he ...

April 04, 2022
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Alameda DA Candidates Meet in a Candidates Forum – Part Two

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|Date: March 26, 2022
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Alameda DA Candidates Meet in a Candidates Forum – Part Two

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Alameda County District Attorney candidates met on Wednesday i ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Alameda County District Attorney candidates met on Wednesday in a candidates' forum hosted by the Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County and Urban ...

March 26, 2022
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Alameda DA Candidates Meet in a Candidates Forum – Part One

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|Date: March 25, 2022
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Alameda DA Candidates Meet in a Candidates Forum – Part One

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Alameda County District Attorney Candidates met on Wednesday i ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Alameda County District Attorney Candidates met on Wednesday in a candidates forum hosted by the Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County and Urban P ...

March 25, 2022
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ACLU Reports Call on Sacramento and Merced DAs to Halt Costly, Ineffective Policies that Fuel Mass Incarceration

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|Date: March 17, 2022
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ACLU Reports Call on Sacramento and Merced DAs to Halt Costly, Ineffective Policies that Fuel Mass Incarceration

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Last week, ACLU of Northern California release ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Last week, ACLU of Northern California released two reports detailing how the top prosecutors in Sacramento and Merced Counties have used the ...

March 17, 2022
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Update: Legislative Black Caucus Joins NAACP in Demanding Investigation into Law Enforcement Misconduct

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|Date: March 05, 2022
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Update: Legislative Black Caucus Joins NAACP in Demanding Investigation into Law Enforcement Misconduct

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA - A letter on Thursday from Betty Williams, president of the Great ...

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA - A letter on Thursday from Betty Williams, president of the Greater Sacramento chapter of the NAACP, noted that Kate Adams, retired in September as chief of the ...

March 05, 2022
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SF’s Public Safety Needs Threaten Return to Criminalize and Incarceration Mentality, Charges ACLU

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|Date: February 22, 2022
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SF’s Public Safety Needs Threaten Return to Criminalize and Incarceration Mentality, Charges ACLU

By Srimathi Kannan and Neha Malhi SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern Cali ...

By Srimathi Kannan and Neha Malhi SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has noted that because of the global pandemic, mass incarceration has not improved, and ...

February 22, 2022
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Commentary: Bass Letter Shows How Quickly the Left Turned on Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: February 11, 2022
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Commentary: Bass Letter Shows How Quickly the Left Turned on Criminal Justice Reform

By David Greenwald Los Angeles, CA - In 2014, Naomi Murakawa wrote the book, How Liberals Built Prison A ...

By David Greenwald Los Angeles, CA - In 2014, Naomi Murakawa wrote the book, How Liberals Built Prison America. The book challenges the traditional understanding "racialized carceral expansion as th ...

February 11, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Tough-on-Crime Laws and Mass Incarceration Waste Tax Dollars and Don’t Make Us Any Safer

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|Date: February 02, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Tough-on-Crime Laws and Mass Incarceration Waste Tax Dollars and Don’t Make Us Any Safer

By Miriam Aroni Krinsky Churning people through jail and prison often leads to more crime You wouldn’t kn ...

By Miriam Aroni Krinsky Churning people through jail and prison often leads to more crime You wouldn’t know it from watching some news outlets, but violent crime in San Francisco is at a 60-year low. ...

February 02, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Link Between Homelessness and Incarceration Shows Us a New Problem with the Housing Crisis

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|Date: January 24, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Link Between Homelessness and Incarceration Shows Us a New Problem with the Housing Crisis

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor How much is the cost of housing driving problems like homelessness ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor How much is the cost of housing driving problems like homelessness, recidivism, and ultimately the cycle of crime? An editorial this week in the LA Times illust ...

January 24, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 139: Kristin Henning and the Criminalization of Black Youth

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|Date: January 24, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 139: Kristin Henning and the Criminalization of Black Youth

Kristin Henning is a Georgetown Law Professor and a former public defender in DC. In her book, Rage of I ...

Kristin Henning is a Georgetown Law Professor and a former public defender in DC. In her book, Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, she discusses how what is ordinary adolescent b ...

January 24, 2022
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Experts Maintain Unvaccinated Incarcerated Pose COVID Threat to Safety Of General Public

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|Date: December 29, 2021
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Experts Maintain Unvaccinated Incarcerated Pose COVID Threat to Safety Of General Public

By Neha Malhi NEW YORK, NY - With Omicron—the new COVID-19 variant—the U.S. is going to see an increase i ...

By Neha Malhi NEW YORK, NY - With Omicron—the new COVID-19 variant—the U.S. is going to see an increase in infection outbreaks, especially for those held in jails, prisons and ICE facilities, accordin ...

December 29, 2021
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Report: Thousands of Incarcerated People in California Are Serving Excessively Long Sentences and Could Be Safely Released

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|Date: December 15, 2021
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Report: Thousands of Incarcerated People in California Are Serving Excessively Long Sentences and Could Be Safely Released

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - A report released this month found that, despite the ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - A report released this month found that, despite the fact that California has enacted a series of criminal justice reforms over the past decade, mo ...

December 15, 2021
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Federal Bill Would Reform U.S. Clemency System, Address Mass Incarceration Crisis

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|Date: December 14, 2021
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Federal Bill Would Reform U.S. Clemency System, Address Mass Incarceration Crisis

By Carson Eschen WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Cori Bush (MO- ...

By Carson Eschen WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Cori Bush (MO-01) and Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) a new legislation Friday dedicated to reforming the nation’s cl ...

December 14, 2021
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Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Is Not Dead Yet

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|Date: December 03, 2021
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Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Is Not Dead Yet

By Rory Fleming On November 30, prominent Substack journalist and podcaster Adam Johnson made a number of ...

By Rory Fleming On November 30, prominent Substack journalist and podcaster Adam Johnson made a number of provocative claims about criminal justice reform: that it is “politically dead,” that the prog ...

December 03, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 132: Former Miami Prosecutorial Candidate Melba Pearson

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|Date: November 29, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 132: Former Miami Prosecutorial Candidate Melba Pearson

In 2020, Melba Pearson ran to attempt to unseat, unsuccessfully, the 27-year incumbent prosecutor of Miam ...

In 2020, Melba Pearson ran to attempt to unseat, unsuccessfully, the 27-year incumbent prosecutor of Miami-Dade County. Now she is policy director of the FIU (Florida International University) projec ...

November 29, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 129: New Orleans DA Jason Williams

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|Date: November 08, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 129: New Orleans DA Jason Williams

It was once a poster child for things like wrongful convictions and the carceral state. But the Orleans ...

It was once a poster child for things like wrongful convictions and the carceral state. But the Orleans Parish DA has transformed his office—immediately dismissing over 400 cases that were prosecuted ...

November 08, 2021
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Commentary: Obstructing Criminal Justice Reforms Makes Us All Less Safe

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|Date: October 27, 2021
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Commentary: Obstructing Criminal Justice Reforms Makes Us All Less Safe

By Gil Garcetti, Ira Reiner and Miriam Aroni Krinsky In the 1980s and ‘90s, California embarked on a disa ...

By Gil Garcetti, Ira Reiner and Miriam Aroni Krinsky In the 1980s and ‘90s, California embarked on a disastrous social experiment. Legislators embraced reactionary law-and-order policies that ratchete ...

October 27, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 126: San Joaquin DA Tori Verber Salazar – Conservative Reformer

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|Date: October 18, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 126: San Joaquin DA Tori Verber Salazar – Conservative Reformer

In 2020, San Joaquin District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar made headlines when she resigned from the Cali ...

In 2020, San Joaquin District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar made headlines when she resigned from the California District Attorney Association (CDAA) after noting the organization has been opposing cri ...

October 18, 2021
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Prison to University Pipeline: How the Berkeley Underground Scholars Helps Formerly Incarcerated Students

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|Date: October 14, 2021
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Prison to University Pipeline: How the Berkeley Underground Scholars Helps Formerly Incarcerated Students

By Jacqueline Nguyen ALAMEDA, CA—The Berkeley Underground Scholars (BUS) organization at UC Berkeley brid ...

By Jacqueline Nguyen ALAMEDA, CA—The Berkeley Underground Scholars (BUS) organization at UC Berkeley bridges the gap between prison and higher education, giving those incarcerated, formerly and presen ...

October 14, 2021
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The Graying of Massachusetts State Prison Population: The Case for Releasing Elderly Prisoners

Posted by Alexander Jimenez
|Date: October 09, 2021
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The Graying of Massachusetts State Prison Population: The Case for Releasing Elderly Prisoners

By ALEX JIMENEZ AND ALIA JAVAID BOSTON, MASS - In an opinion piece by Scott Lehigh of the Boston Globe, a ...

By ALEX JIMENEZ AND ALIA JAVAID BOSTON, MASS - In an opinion piece by Scott Lehigh of the Boston Globe, a new Massachusetts bill is designed to reform the age-old mold of justice by releasing aging st ...

October 09, 2021
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