Alec Karakatsanis (a member of our Board of Advisors) writes with news about a case that he helped spearhead in which a federal judge in Georgia yesterday “granted a class-wide preliminary injunction forcing the City of Calhoun to end its
Criminal Justice
Great news from Alec Karakatsanis (a member of our Board) about another step toward justice. Alec’s team won a major victory last night against money bail and private probation in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The federal court in Nashville issued a
The Criminal Justice Program of Study is hosting what looks like an incredible conference called New Ledes: The Media & Criminal Justice Reform this Thursday and Friday at HLS. Event website here and program here: Thursday, November 19, 2015 Panel 1 – Defining
UPCOMING EVENT Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics A discussion with author Marie Gottschalk Thursday, November 12, 2015 5:30 – 7:30 pm Wasserstein Hall, Room 2004 Harvard Law School In this book, Marie Gottschalk exposes the
From Today’s New York Times, an article about the important work that Alec Karakatsanis and his colleagues (with the assistance of several HLS students) have been doing to fight systemic injustice around the country. In January, Christy Dawn Varden was
Josie Duffy, a friend of SJP, is writing about prosecutors and needs your help. From Daily Kos: As many of you know, my writing at Daily Kos focuses primarily on prosecutors: Instances of prosecutorial misconduct, examples of outsized prosecutorial power,
Alec Karakatsanis has yet another new debtor’s prison lawsuit, this time in Jackson, Mississippi. I think David Menschel tweets it well: Badass lawyer @equalityAlec sues yet another jurisdiction – this time Jackson, MS – over modern-day debtors’ prisons. No person has
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOrhuBiAOpo] On February 12 and 13, 2015, Professor Crenshaw made three outstanding, public presentations at Harvard Law School — at events organized by Harvard Law School’s Students for Inclusion. All three talks are compiled talks in this video. In the
This morning, Alec Karakatsanis and a team of Tennessee lawyers filed a class action civil rights debtors’ prison lawsuit in federal court in Nashville. The complaint alleges a systemic corruption, extortion, and racketeering conspiracy that has corrupted the basic delivery