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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…

4 min readOct 16, 2022

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Progressive Prosecutors Make a Difference for the Innocent

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Jessica S. Henry

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…

4 min readDec 18, 2020

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Top Ten Criminal Justice Reform Wishlist for 2021

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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…

4 min readNov 19, 2020

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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…

3 min readNov 6, 2020

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Criminal Justice Reform Is a Winner

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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

5 min readSep 2, 2020

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

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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.

7 min readJul 12, 2020

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

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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…

4 min readJun 16, 2020

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Two Suspicious Deaths by Hangings of Black Men in California

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Jessica S. Henry
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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…

6 min readJun 7, 2020

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

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Jessica S. Henry

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…

3 min readMay 19, 2020

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Another Innocent Man Executed?

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Jessica S. Henry
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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…

6 min readApr 20, 2020

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

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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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