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
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Whitney Benns, a friend of the Systemic Justice Project and Justice Fellow has a fantastic piece in The Atlantic on forced labor in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. After describing scenes that are virtually unchanged from antebellum slavery, including especially the race
An important op-ed by Systemic Justice Project Board of Advisors member Alec Karakatsanis on the way that political fear is preventing illegally sentenced prisoners from being released. There are many people like Mr. Gilbert in America’s federal prisons — people
Lydia Edwards — the Equal Justice Works Fellow at Greater Boston Services and a member of the Systemic Justice Project Advisory Board — is helping to organize an evening with Ai-Jen Poo and the Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers. Mark