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The Role of Prosecutors in Reforming our Criminal Legal System [Video]
Our expert panelists on this webinar spoke about the power of prosecutors to make decisions that affect peoples lives...
Mississippi’s Harmful Habitual Offender Laws [Video]
How did a Mississippi man end up getting sentenced to serve 60 years in prison for purchasing cold medicine and...
Alec Karakatsanis Book Talk [Video]
Civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis joins The Justice Collaborative to discuss his recently published book, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of...
From Innocence to Redemption: Perspectives on Ending the Death Penalty [Video]
Since its formalization, the death penalty has been marked by racial bias, wrongful convictions, soaring costs, and disproportionate impacts on...
Jail Churn [Video]
How many people are really booked into local jails each year? And for what crimes? Our panel digs into a...
Treat All Kids Like Kids [Video]
Kids should not be in the adult criminal legal system. But every year in the United States, close to 100,000...
Ending Cash Bail [Video]
During the webinar, panelists discussed how the cash bail system criminalizes poverty, as well as pretrial incarcerations impact on a...
Extreme Sentencing: How States Drive Mass Incarceration [Video]
As of 2016, there were 206,268 people in the United States serving a life-sentence or a de-facto life sentence of...