New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation

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New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation

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.

  1. NOV 12

    Drug Testing and the Ordeal of Probation

    What is probation—and the ethos of drug testing that is at its heart—actually testing?

    43 min

  2. AUG 14

    Inside Literary Prize: And the Winner Is...

    Hear from the winner of this year's Inside Literary Prize, the first major U.S. book award to be judged exclusively by people who are incarcerated.

    12 min

  3. AUG 1

    Inside Literary Prize: Shakopee Women's Prison

    A behind-the-scenes portrait of a day of judging for the Inside Literary Prize, the first major U.S. book award judged exclusively by people who are incarcerated.

    38 min

  4. MAY 6

    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."

    43 min

  5. MAR 19

    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."

    29 min

  6. 12/16/2023

    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. Full show notes

    36 min

  7. 11/16/2023

    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. Full show notes

    24 min

  8. 04/04/2023

    Gideon at 60: The Unfunded Mandate

    Sixty years on from a landmark Supreme Court decision, how can public defenders organize for genuine change?

    39 min
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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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