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Rethinking Reform: Prisons in America – Won students at a Phoenix High School national recognition
Metropolitan Arts Institute is a private charter High School focused on the arts. The School’s filmmaking classes produced the top two winners of StudentCam 2016 for the Western region. Daniela Mock-Zubia and her partner in the project, Sophia Taglienti, wrote, shot and edited a documentary titled Rethinking Reform: Prisons in
National Reentry Week, April 24-30, 2016
National Reentry Week, April 24-30, 2016 “Under the Obama Administration, the Department of Justice has taken major steps to make our criminal justice system more fair, more efficient, and more effective at reducing recidivism and helping formerly incarcerated individuals contribute to their communities. An important part of that task is preparing
TUCSON EVENT – JUBILIEE FOR JUSTICE, March 31, 2016, 6-9 pm
Jubilee for Justice – AJP Event! MARCH 31, 2016, TUCSON, ARIZONA! Please join us at Club Congress located at 311 E. Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona on March 31st! Come listen to live music performed by Salvador Duran and Carlos Azarte, and meet exonerees Khalil Rushdan and Eddie Lowery. The doors
For Arizona’s wrongfully convicted, life after prison brings hardship and hope
Drayton Witt helps his daughter, Ellie Mae Justice Witt, up the jungle gym at Rio Vista Community Park (Photo by Erica L. Lang/Cronkite News) __________ By Erica L. Lang | Cronkite News | POSTED: Mar 3, 2016 For 12 years, Drayton Witt passed his days behind bars, surrounded by rapists,
IN THE NEWS: Woman Exonerated After Serving 10 Years for Manslaughter Conviction
Picture: Vanessa Gathers, 58, with Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, after her manslaughter conviction was vacated on Tuesday. Credit Andrew Kelly for The New York Times By SARAH MASLIN NIR, New York Times – FEB. 23, 2016 In a gray suit, her short hair neatly curled, Vanessa Gathers sat
Sharing: Prisoners Exonerated, Prosecutors Exposed
FACT: On average, 3 convicted people are now exonerated of their crimes every week. Travis Dove for The New York Times In 2015, 149 people convicted of crimes large and small — from capital murder to burglary — were exonerated. It is the highest yearly total since this grim form
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‘Huge Step’: FCC Slashes Costs of Prison Phone Calls
Federal regulators took new steps on Thursday to slash the cost of calls in prison, which they said can run as high as $14 a minute. The move by the Federal Communications Commission was described as a “huge step forward” by one reform group and denounced as “wrong-headed” by a
The big paradox of justice in America, by Justin Roman
“There were about 250,000 jail beds in the early 1980s, and today there are more than 800,000 … Prosecutors have more beds to fill and they are doing so, and as a result more arrestees find themselves serving prison sentences than ever before. And some of them may be innocent.”
Arizona Justice Project – And the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Program
Arizona Justice Project – And the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Program Dollar-for-Dollar – Your contribution helps to identify and free the wrongfully convicted or those who have suffered a manifest injustice and are indigent.
Arizona Horizon – ASU Post-Conviction Clinic and the Arizona Justice Project
Host: Ted Simons ASU Post-conviction Clinic Arizona State University’s Post-conviction Clinic seeks to help inmates who are innocent but have been convicted of a crime. The clinic recently received a new grant from the National Institute of Justice. Katherine Puzauskas, executive director of the Arizona Justice Project, and Robert Dormady,
Advances in DNA Testing Could Put Thousands of Texas Cases in Legal Limbo, By Meagan Flynn, Houston Press
Advances in DNA Testing Could Put Thousands of Texas Cases in Legal Limbo By Meagan Flynn , Houston Press Five days after a Houston woman was raped by two men, she was driving down the street when she spotted 16-year-old Josiah Sutton. She thought she recognized his hat, and then immediately identified
Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release, By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post
By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison — the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners — in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades. The