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Age of Awareness

Progressive Prosecutors Make a Difference for the Innocent

This November, voters around the country will engage in local elections with significant criminal justice impact. Nowhere is that more…

Oct 16, 2022

Progressive Prosecutors Make a Difference for the Innocent

Oct 16, 2022

Top Ten Criminal Justice Reform Wishlist for 2021

For the past seven years, I have written a year-end “wish list” of criminal justice reforms I’d like to see happen in the common year…

Dec 18, 2020

Top Ten Criminal Justice Reform Wishlist for 2021

Dec 18, 2020

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Lisa Montgomery is Set to Die, While Her Lawyers Battle the Coronavirus They Caught While Visiting…

Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to die by lethal injection on December 8th. Montgomery would be the first woman executed by the federal…

Nov 19, 2020

Lisa Montgomery is Set to Die, While Her Lawyers Battle the Coronavirus They Caught While Visiting…

Nov 19, 2020

Criminal Justice Reform Is a Winner

While we wait for final confirmation that Joe Biden won the presidency, one thing is clear: this election was a win for criminal justice…

Nov 6, 2020

Criminal Justice Reform Is a Winner

Nov 6, 2020

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Thousands of People Might Be in Prison for Crimes That Never Even Happened

Once an event is mislabeled as a crime, forward momentum takes over — especially when there’s already a suspect

Sep 2, 2020

Thousands of People Might Be in Prison for Crimes That Never Even Happened

Sep 2, 2020

The Death Penalty Is Racist: Now Is the Perfect Time to Abolish It Once and For All

Julius Jones has spent the last 20 years on Oklahoma’s death row for a murder he has always said he didn’t commit.

Jul 12, 2020

The Death Penalty Is Racist: Now Is the Perfect Time to Abolish It Once and For All

Jul 12, 2020

Two Suspicious Deaths by Hangings of Black Men in California

Robert Fuller, a twenty-four-year old black man, was found on June 10th, hanging from a tree near City Hall in Palmdale, California. With…

Jun 16, 2020

Two Suspicious Deaths by Hangings of Black Men in California

Jun 16, 2020

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Age of Awareness

Don’t Forget the Prosecutors When We Talk About Police Reform

Millions of Americans have now watched the stomach-turning scene over and over: George Floyd handcuffed, lying prostrate on his stomach in…

Jun 7, 2020

Don’t Forget the Prosecutors When We Talk About Police Reform

Jun 7, 2020

Another Innocent Man Executed?

Walter “Arkie” Barton is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on Tuesday, May 19th. Missouri may well be executing an…

May 19, 2020

Another Innocent Man Executed?

May 19, 2020

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Age of Awareness

Binge Watching? What “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” Teaches Us About Criminal Justice Reform

The criminal justice system abounds with inequities. Today’s news headlines are full of stories about our nation’s jail and prisons, where…

Apr 20, 2020

Binge Watching? What “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” Teaches Us About Criminal Justice Reform

Apr 20, 2020

Jessica S. Henry

Jessica S. Henry

Criminal Justice Reform/Prof/Fmr public defender. Blog@ www.jessicahenryjustice.com. au:Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened

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