Here’s the video for the third session, held on April 8th, focusing on Decareration. The discussion was moderated by Harvard Law Students, Connie Cho and Rio Sharf. The Panelists were: Alec Karakatsanis: Founder & Executive Director, Civil Rights Corp. David Lewis:
Criminal Justice
This week there will be two sessions of the “Systemic Lawyering in Times of Crisis” Webinar. The series features systemically oriented lawyers and activists in fields most affected by our latest crisis. Each session examines the special challenges posed by the crisis, the pressing needs, the
Arkansas’ attempt to execute eight death row inmates prior to April 30th, when their supply of midazolam expires, stands in stark contrast to the declining trend of execution by lethal injection and opens a new front in the culture wars.
From one of our systemic justice students, here is an illuminating website briefly describing capital punishment in America, focusing in particular in how inadequate representation disadvantages a large number of capital defendants and skews the system against them. Included is
Great news from two friends of the Systemic Justice Project: A small city bordering Ferguson, Mo., has agreed to pay $4.7 million to compensate nearly 2,000 people who spent time in the city’s jail for not paying fines and fees
This is a republication of a post originally posted on December 26th 2014: Last week a South Carolina judge took the unprecedented step of vacating the 1944 conviction of a black 14-year-old boy, the youngest person executed in the United
The fifth and final session of the Criminal Justice Program’s Race, Place, & Policing: What Can We Learn From Baltimore series (cosponsored by the Systemic Justice Project) is this Monday, Feb 29th at 5:30pm in WCC2009. The session will feature
Systemic Justice Project alums Whitney Benns and Blake Strode have a powerful and vital piece in The Atlantic about 21st century debtors’ prisons in St. Louis, but really about systemic racism. They write: As the recent deluge of reports and litigation confirms,
The fourth session of the Criminal Justice Program of Study, Research and Advocacy’s series on Race, Place and Policing: What we can Learn from Baltimore is tomorrow! Andrés Alonso, Professor of Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and