News & Commentary about Smart Justice
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May 12, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Has Just Doubled Down on the Immoral, Racist, and Counterproductive War on Drugs
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May 11, 2017
Behind Many ‘Mom and Pop’ Bail Bonds Shops Is a Huge Insurance Corporation Out to Profit From Misery
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May 9, 2017
Long-Awaited Public Defense Reform Comes to New York State
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Apr 26, 2017
The ACLU Is at the UN Tomorrow to Testify on the Horrific Human Rights Record of US Private Prison Companies
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Apr 25, 2017
We’re Living in a Surveillance Society, So Why Do We Need Bail?
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Apr 19, 2017
I Spent More Than 6 Years in Prison. Now I’m Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice.
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Apr 17, 2017
The Entire Massachusetts Criminal Justice System Is Tainted, Not Just the Dookhan Convictions
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Mar 31, 2017
Poor New Yorkers Get Lost in the State’s Broken Public Defense System
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Mar 15, 2017
Kalief Browder’s Tragic Death and the Criminal Injustice of Our Bail System
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Feb 6, 2017
Court Leaders Nationwide Send Message to Debtors’ Prisons: Courts Are Not ATMs.