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23 Nov 2008, 1:10 am
On Friday, I received from The Sentencing Project the following  e-mail announcing an important new report  addressing  racial justice:   We're pleased to call your attention to a newly released report, Compact for Racial Justice: An Agenda for Fairness and Unity. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:32 pm by Lovechilde
(LDF) and the Equal Justice Society (EJS) joined with organizations across the country – including the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, the Capital Litigation Communications Project, the Center for Death Penalty Litigation Inc., the Death Penalty Information Center, Equal Justice USA, the Innocence Project, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the Proteus Fund – to raise awareness of how this landmark decision… [read post]
23 Aug 2022, 5:46 am by David Pocklington
[…] Comment The first biannual Racial Justice Report from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice was released on 28 June 2022, and is reviewed here. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 2:58 pm by Legal Talk Network
When the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Racial Justice Act in 2009, it guaranteed that no individual would be put to death because of racial bias within the state’s justice system. [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 1:28 pm by Emma Zack
The post Washington Post Column Highlights Evidence of Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System appeared first on Innocence Project. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 10:00 am by Sarah Cole
This three-part series … Continue reading OSU-SLS-HNMCP Symposium Series: Rethinking Systems Design for Racial Justice & Equity → [read post]
Learn more about racial justice Sign up for breaking news alerts, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 6:33 am by Sean Harrington
We have compiled national as well as local organizations dedicated to the pursuit of racial justice. [read post]
1 Aug 2021, 9:03 pm by Joseph A. Ingrao
Through forward-thinking design of existing regulatory tools, states can build a brighter and more just energy future.The post Utility Ratemaking for Racial Justice first appeared on The Regulatory Review. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 7:25 am by Bridget Crawford
Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology is hosting the Thirteenth Amendment and Racial Justice Conference on November 9–10, 2019. [read post]
1 May 2018, 3:33 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance March 2018. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 9:13 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Here is the abstract: This chapter [in the multi-volume Reforming Criminal Justice project]... [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 1:55 am by David Pocklington
In his foreword letter to the third Report, Lord Boateng continues to praise the work of the Church Commissioners on Project Spire but calls for a process that places Africa, the Caribbean and their Diaspora at its heart in order to ensure restorative justice. [read post]
19 Jan 2018, 9:00 pm
Beginning with the author’s experience of being arrested as a legal observer during a Ferguson protest, this Essay explores the First Amendment freedom of assembly’s fragile protection for those who fight for racial justice, arguing that civil rights movements have always been and continue to be disproportionately chilled by authorities. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 10:06 am
House of Representatives James Reams, President-Elect National District Attorneys Association Barry Krisberg, President National Council on Crime and Delinquency Mark Mauer, Executive Director The Sentencing Project Wayne McKenzie, Director Program on Prosecution and Racial Justice I am hopeful (but not optimistic) that the links to the witnesses' testimony will eventually work on  this official hearing page. [read post]
25 Feb 2021, 12:00 pm by Alicia Maule
The post Thurgood Marshall’s Pursuit of Justice Lives on at the Innocence Project appeared first on Innocence Project. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 1:38 pm by Rachel Myers, ACLU
Beverly Perdue today courageously vetoed a bill to repeal that state’s Racial Justice Act (RJA), an historic 2009 state law enacted to ensure that death sentences handed down in the state are not the result of racial bias in the trial and jury selection process. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 7:33 am by Sam Favate
The 2009 Racial Justice Act has also been employed by many death row inmates. [read post]
There’s a simple assumption at the heart of North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act (RJA), which allows death row inmates to present statistical evidence to support the contention that race discrimination played a part in their case and possibly have their death sentence converted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [read post]