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Podcast on Criminalization of Black Girls

Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts Shades of Freedom, from The Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Reform Initiative, ...

BY Criminal Justice Reform Initiative

Podcast

08.17.2020
Criminal Law and Justice

U.S. Supreme Court’s Denial of Application to Vacate Stay in the Case of Raysor v. DeSantis

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision will disenfranchise nearly 1 million individuals in Florida. Denying people their right to vote due to unpaid debt is reminiscent of a Jim Crow era “poll tax,” continuing the systemic criminalization of the poor and people of color.

BY Douglas Wood

Blog Post

07.17.2020
Criminal Law and Justice

Ending This Place of Torment: Transforming the Criminal Justice Continuum

In CJRI's 2019 founding report, Ending This Place of Torment: A Framework for Transforming the Criminal Justice Continuum, we take a look at comprehensive ...

BY Criminal Justice Reform Initiative & 1 more

Publication

06.16.2020
Criminal Law and Justice

Criminal Justice Transformation

Featuring Anna Deavere Smith, actress, playwright, and founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University, and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation in conversation with Reverend Vivian Nixon, executive director of College & Community Fellowship and an Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow.

Event

06.10.2020
Criminal Law and Justice

Now Is the Time to Transform the Criminal Justice System

People are being released from prisons during the pandemic, but what is happening in the communities they've returned to?

BY Douglas Wood

Blog Post

04.24.2020
Criminal Law and Justice

Jeff Flake urges cooperation across political divides

Former Senator Jeff Flake reflects on his career in conversation with Meryl Chertoff.

BY Meryl Justin Chertoff

Blog Post

07.16.2019
Criminal Law and Justice

Preet Bharara Talks More than Politics

The former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York told a story about ducking the president's phone calls.

BY Meryl Justin Chertoff

Blog Post

05.30.2019
Literature

Tayari Jones Tells the Truth

The 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Winner discussed how she brings a human face to the social issues most pressing in our time.

BY Sophia Rivera-Silverstein

Blog Post

05.01.2019
Around the Institute

Sonia Sotomayor - 2016

Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was presented with the Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership.

BY New York Public Programs

Video

12.09.2016
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