Second Chance Month: A Time to Look Back
S3E13: Farming as Regenerative Justice, with Charles Rosen
In this episode of Just Justice, Jessica Henry speaks with Charles Rosen, founder of Ironbound Farm, about an unusual approach to reentry: combining regenerative farming with second-chance employment. Charles shares what he’s learned from hiring people returning from prison, why jobs alone often aren’t enough, and how systems like parole can still derail successful reentry. Drawing […]
S3: E12 Breaking Good, with author Nikki Mammano
Nikki Mammano, a dear personal friend, is the author of Breaking Good (Simon & Schuster, 2026), a face-paced memoir that traces her journey from suburban New Jersey to the drug underworld of Waikiki and back again, through addiction, arrest, prison, and ultimately recovery. Our conversation is both poignant and funny as we explore trauma, addiction […]
S3E11: Death by Incarceration: Felix Rosado on Life Sentences and Restorative Justice
S3E11: Death by Incarceration: Felix Rosado on Life Sentences and Restorative Justice Sentenced to life without parole at 18, Felix Rosado spent nearly 27 years in prison before his sentence was commuted. In this episode of Just Justice, Felix reflects on the moment he realized what a life sentence truly meant, what’s wrong with “death by […]
S3E10: When Children Are Sentenced to Life Without Parole, with April Barber-Scales
In this episode of Just Justice, Jessica Henry speaks with April Barber-Scales, who was sentenced as a pregnant teenager to life without parole. In 2022, April received a rare commutation from North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and has since devoted herself to advocating for people in prison and against extreme sentences. Founder of the nonprofit Fenced In: Fighting For Freedom […]
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
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 […]
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 […]