BORN IN: Dallas, Texas, 1972 INTERVIEWED IN: San Francisco, California Interview Conducted by Ion Vlad and Reggie Daniels We first meet Georgia on a Thursday evening, at a café located in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Georgia is a single mother living in Oakland with…

By Allison Elder, Root & Rebound Equal Justice Works Fellow In Jones v. Mississippi, 141 S. Ct. 1307 (2021), the Supreme Court seemingly gutted its precedents that protect children from spending a life-time behind bars for crimes reflecting their transient immaturity. …

By Zachariah Oquenda, Root & Rebound California Policy Attorney Shelter is a fundamental need for every human being. People with criminal records are no exception. …

Dear America, Here we go again. We’re writing another statement about another Black person killed by police. When will the names Ayanna Stanley Jones, Tamir Rice, Atatiana Jefferson, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and, now, Daunte Wright, matter? When will the criminal legal system tire of killing Black Indigenous…

Dear Community, The recent killing of six Asian-American women and two others in Georgia has left us heartbroken. We know that racism, sexism, and xenophobia are at the core of this loss of life. …

Dr. King’s Legacy, Notions of Progress, and the War on Drugs in 2021 by Damali Robertson, Deputy Director of Strategic Partnerships Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved to Alabama in 1954. In his first major civil rights case, he pursued justice for 16-year-old Jeremiah Reeves. Jeremiah, a black man, was arrested for raping Mabel Ann Crowder, a white woman, in her home, although…

By Katherine Katcher & Rebecca Berry As we are all aware, the 2020 presidential race was called last Friday by the Associated Press for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Many of us are breathing a sigh of relief about this much-needed change in federal leadership, but we all know this…

By Dr. Noel Vest, Andrew Winn, Sonja Tonnesen-Casalegno, and Emily Blake Banning the Box Movement The United States leads the world in incarceration and criminal convictions. Approximately seventy-one million, or roughly one in three adults, have criminal convictions and are subject to discrimination on the basis of that conviction. This is widely documented in…

The US criminal legal system has proven again that it serves an incomplete form of justice — justice without accountability — because it is a system never designed with Breonna Taylor, or people who look like her, in mind. This week, a grand jury indicted Officer Brett Hankinson on three…