The Big Reveal…
As many of you know, for the last two years I’ve been working on a book with the University of California Press about a question at the heart of American justice: should people forever be defined by the worst thing they have ever done? This book is intended to challenge a system built around permanent […]
S4E1: A Beautiful Pain: Accountability and Transformation with Damon “Sharuka” Venable
On this episode of Just Justice, Damon “Sharuka” Venable, Community Affairs and Policy Specialist with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, shares his journey from a Newark childhood marked by poverty and street violence to spending 35 years in prison before being granted parole on his first attempt. Drawing from his memoir, A Beautiful Pain, […]