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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 people’s lives...

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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...

2020 01 journalists guide to reporting on crime and public safety

Journalists’ Guide to Reporting on Crime and Public Safety

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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...

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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...

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Jail Churn [Video]

How many people are really booked into local jails each year? And for what crimes? Our panel digs into a...

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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...

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Ending Cash Bail [Video]

During the webinar, panelists discussed how the cash bail system criminalizes poverty, as well as pretrial incarceration’s impact on a...

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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...