New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation Center for Justice Innovation
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New Thinking is about justice—and injustice—in America. It’s about the people trying to fix a legal system that falls so short of our ideals, and about the people organizing to build something new in its place. It’s hosted by Matt Watkins and produced by the Center for Justice Innovation.
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Mental Health and Anti-Blackness
"Even in the clients we serve, anti-Blackness is the reason why they show up in harmful ways in the community."
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Recriminalization in Oregon
Morgan Godvin was at the frontlines of Oregon's decriminalization fight. She says progress towards a health-based approach to drug use "has fallen prey to fear-based policy."
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Gideon at 60: Deconstructing Mass Supervision
Vincent Schiraldi used to run probation in New York City; now he’s asking whether it should even exist. Schiraldi says some of the roots of mass supervision—and its connection to mass incarceration—can be found in a surprising place: the Supreme Court’s 1963 Gideon decision. It recognized, but failed to adequately support, a poor person’s right to a lawyer.
Hear the final episode in our “Gideon at 60” series.
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Gideon at 60: Uncivil Justice
A profile of the fight to secure lawyers for people facing eviction and the radical impact that is having in Housing Court. With its 1963 Gideon decision, the Supreme Court guaranteed a lawyer to any poor person facing prison time. For criminal cases, the decision was both sweeping and critically incomplete. On the civil side, the campaign for a right-to-counsel is taking a different approach—it's slow and piecemeal, but it's also working.
This is the second episode in our series on the legacy of the Gideon decision. Hear the first episode here.
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Gideon at 60: The Unfunded Mandate
Sixty years on from a landmark Supreme Court decision, how can public defenders organize for genuine change?
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When Young People Go to Prison for Life
Rather than arrests and incarceration, what do young people who commit harm actually need?