S3E9: Writing His Way Out: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on Abolition and Imagination
In this powerful episode of Just Justice, writer, organizer, and abolitionist Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author of Ghosts in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, draws on more than two decades of incarceration to offer a deeply personal and sharply analytical critique of the U.S. criminal legal system, along with a bold vision […]
Happy Holidays from Just Justice
Retirement Reflections
Dear Freinds, Today is my last day of classes, so it only seems fitting that today I also write to share some personal news. After 20 years of teaching at Montclair State University, I am retiring at the end of this semester. When I left my work as a New York City public defender to […]
S3E8: You Don’t Have to Be Prison, with Dr. Daphne Brydon
Dr. Daphne Bryden joins this episode of Just Justice to explore trauma, transformation, and life after long-term incarceration. Drawing on over two decades of clinical and research experience, Dr. Brydon examines how people sentenced to life as children survive and grow in prison, and how they reclaim their identities and intimacy upon their release. She also […]
S3:E7 Ending State Killing, with Abe Bonowitz from Death Penalty Action
In this episode of Just Justice, host Jessica Henry sits down with Abe Bonowitz, co-founder and executive director of Death Penalty Action and one of the most persistent voices in the movement to end capital punishment in the United States. Abe shares how he went from a young man who once said he’d “pull the […]
Grace and Gratitude
This week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy granted 59 clemency petitions, including pardons to 11 veterans on Veteran’s Day. All in, Governor Murphy so far has granted clemency in 228 cases.
S3EP6: Where Hope Lives: Jennifer Soble and the Illinois Prison Project
Jennifer Soble, founder and Executive Director of the Illinois Prison Project, is re-imagining justice around a simple but radical belief: people can change. In this episode of Just Justice, Jennifer and host Jessica Henry explore how hope becomes action, and how that hope has brought hundreds of people home. Through compelling stories of freedom and […]
S3EP5: Meet David Carrillo, the First Incarcerated College Professor in the United States
David Carrillo was serving a life without parole sentence when he realized he needed to radically change his thinking, and the way he was living behind bars. From a prison cell, he began a journey of education, reflection, and transformation that led him to become the first incarcerated college professor in the country. In this inspiring […]
October, A Time For Action
Here are FOUR ways to get energized and moving for justice…
S3: E4 Sixteen Years in Prison For A Crime He Didn’t Commit: Attorney and Exoneree Jeffrey Deskovic on Justice and Redemption
At just 17, Jeffrey Deskovic was coerced into a false confession and wrongly convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, despite DNA evidence that proved his innocence. After 16 years behind bars, he was finally exonerated. Now an attorney and founder of the Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation, Jeff joins Just Justice to share his powerful story and […]