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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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Everyday Injustice Episode 84: San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju

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|Date: November 16, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Episode 84: San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju

In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the ...

In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the only elected public defender in California was Mano Raju. His first 18 months has seen not onl ...

November 16, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Takes Another Big, Messy Step Forward in 2020 Elections

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|Date: November 09, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Takes Another Big, Messy Step Forward in 2020 Elections

By Taylor Pendergrass Criminal justice reform was a key issue in Tuesday night’s elections, from the pres ...

By Taylor Pendergrass Criminal justice reform was a key issue in Tuesday night’s elections, from the presidential race all the way down to municipal ballot initiatives. One exciting indication of just ...

November 09, 2020
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Maricopa County AZ Attorney Debate – Prosecutors Trade Barbs As Gunnigle Makes Case For Refrom

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Maricopa County AZ Attorney Debate – Prosecutors Trade Barbs As Gunnigle Makes Case For Refrom

By Lauren Smith MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County Attorney Republican incumbent Allister Adel and Dem ...

By Lauren Smith MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County Attorney Republican incumbent Allister Adel and Democratic challenger Julie Gunnigle Friday evening traded barbs and debated criminal justice refo ...

October 19, 2020
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Life Sentence Survivors Speak on Dismantling Mass Incarceration

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Life Sentence Survivors Speak on Dismantling Mass Incarceration

By Kelly Moran DETROIT – A virtual panel via Zoom focused on re-evaluating life sentences in U.S. prisons ...

By Kelly Moran DETROIT – A virtual panel via Zoom focused on re-evaluating life sentences in U.S. prisons was hosted by The Sentencing Project in partnership last week with Wayne State University. The ...

October 19, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 81: Dan Quart Runs for Manhattan DA

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|Date: October 14, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 81: Dan Quart Runs for Manhattan DA

Dan Quart has been in the NY State Assembly for nearly a decade. Now he is among many running for the Man ...

Dan Quart has been in the NY State Assembly for nearly a decade. Now he is among many running for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, a position currently held by Cy Vance, but it is unknown if ...

October 14, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Prop 20 Would Roll Back Years of Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: October 14, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Prop 20 Would Roll Back Years of Criminal Justice Reform

The ballot initiative, supported by police, corporations, and even big grocery chains, would use more tax ...

The ballot initiative, supported by police, corporations, and even big grocery chains, would use more taxpayer money to incarcerate people, rather than invest in other social services. By Ray Levy Uye ...

October 14, 2020
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Proposition 20: Critics Charge It Will Undo Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: October 13, 2020
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Proposition 20: Critics Charge It Will Undo Criminal Justice Reform

By Roxanna Jarvis and Dylan Ferguson CALIFORNIA – One of the criminal justice-related propositions on th ...

By Roxanna Jarvis and Dylan Ferguson CALIFORNIA – One of the criminal justice-related propositions on the California ballot Nov. 3 is Proposition 20. And, if passed, Prop 20 would undo important cri ...

October 13, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Smarter Approach to Measuring Prosecutorial Success

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|Date: October 09, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Smarter Approach to Measuring Prosecutorial Success

By Anthony Thompson and Miriam Krinsky As the field of prosecution has increasingly recognized the failur ...

By Anthony Thompson and Miriam Krinsky As the field of prosecution has increasingly recognized the failure of approaches of previous decades that aim to be tough on crime, a number of reform-minded pr ...

October 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 80: Ben Pogue Runs for Solicitor in South Carolina

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|Date: October 08, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 80: Ben Pogue Runs for Solicitor in South Carolina

Ben Pogue is a candidate for the Ninth Circuit Solicitor in South Carolina, representing Charleston and B ...

Ben Pogue is a candidate for the Ninth Circuit Solicitor in South Carolina, representing Charleston and Berkley Counties. He is looking to bring reform and accountability to the criminal justice syste ...

October 08, 2020
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Commentary: Is Biden Out of Step on Criminal Justice Reform?

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|Date: October 06, 2020
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Commentary: Is Biden Out of Step on Criminal Justice Reform?

By David M. Greenwald While the nation has been transfixed with the Trump administration's handling of ev ...

By David M. Greenwald While the nation has been transfixed with the Trump administration's handling of everything from coronavirus to his debate to racial unrest, some on the left have given former Vi ...

October 06, 2020
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