Justice In America
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Justice In America
Justice in America, hosted by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith, is a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform— from those new to the system to experts who want to know more. Each episode we cover a new criminal justice issue. We explain how it works and look at its impact on people...
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Restorative Justice and the Open Prison Model: Featuring David Shipley (A Co-Production by The Appeal and The Wall: Behind and Beyond)
Since you last heard from us at Justice in America, we’re excited to share that The Appeal became a worker-led nonprofit newsroom. We are continuing t...
Episode 30: A Conversation with Rodney Spivey-Jones and Max Kenner
In January 2020 Josie Duffy Rice and her producer, Florence Barrau-Adams, traveled to Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon New York to interview R...
Episode 29: Schools in Prison
On this episode of Justice in America, Josie Duffy Rice and her co-host Derecka Purnell talk about education in prisons. They'll discuss the impact of...
Dyjuan Tatro and Wes Caines’ Book Recommendations
Wesley Caines is the Chief of Staff at the Bronx Defenders and an alum of the Bard Prison Initiative or BPI and Dyjuan Tatro, works at the Bard Prison...
Interviewing the creators of College Behind Bars
In this bonus episode, Josie Duffy Rice and her co-host Derecka Purnell talk to Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, the creators of College Behind Bars. C...
Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein's Book Recommendations
Director Lynn Novick and Producer Sarah Botstein, the creators of College Behind Bars, join hosts Josie Duffy Rice and Derecka Purnell to talk about t...
Episode 28: School to Prison Pipeline
What is the school to prison pipeline, and how is it affecting children across America? On this episode of Justice in America, Josie and her co-host,...
Judith Browne Dianis’ Book Recommendation
Judith Browne Dianis is the Executive Director of the Advancement Project. Judith joined host Josie Duffy Rice to talk about her reading recommendatio...
Episode 27: Junk Forensic Science
Everyone who has ever watched a crime procedural believes that forensic science is the most reliable way to tell whether someone is guilty or not. But...
Radley Balko's Book Recommendation
Radley Balko is an opinion journalist at the Washington Post and author of The Cadaver and the Country Dentist. Radley joined host Josie Duffy Rice t...
Episode 26: The Privatization of Prisons
On this episode of Justice Podcast, Josie Duffy Rice and guest co-host Donovan Ramsey look at the privatization of America’s criminal legal system. Th...
Bianca Tylek's Book Recommendation
Bianca Tylek is the Executive Director of Worth Rises, a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the...
Episode 25: Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill
On this episode of Justice in America, Josie Duffy Rice and her guest co-host, Darnell Moore, talk to Sherrilyn Ifill about policing, civil rights, th...
Sherrilyn Ifill's Book Recommendations
Sherrilyn Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law org...
Episode 24: Death Penalty
On this episode of Justice in America, Josie Duffy Rice, and guest co-host Darnell Moore, focus on the death penalty. Capital punishment remains one o...
State Attorney Aramis Ayala Book Recommendations
Aramis Ayala is the State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. State Attorney Ayala joined Josie Duffy Rice to talk about her boo...
Episode 23: Criminalizing Mothers
One of the most devastating collateral consequences for someone involved in the criminal justice system is the potential destruction of their family –...
Emma Ketteringham's Book Recommendation
Emma Ketteringham is the Managing Director of the Bronx Defenders Family Defense Practice. Emma joined Josie to talk about her book recommendation.
Episode 22: Probation and Parole
About 2.3 million people are incarcerated in America, but about 6.7 million people are under some form of correctional control. The difference between...
LaTonya Tate’s Book Recommendation
LaTonya Tate is the Executive Director and Founder of Alabama Justice Initiative based in Birmingham, Alabama. LaTonya joined Josie to talk about her...
Episode 21: Police Accountability
As civilians, how do we hold the police responsible for wrongdoing? On the first episode of Season 3, Josie Duffy and co-host Darnell Moore discuss di...
Alicia Garza's Book Recommendation
Alicia Garza is an activist, writer, and organizer, who currently serves as Principal at Black Futures Lab. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter....
10 Questions Bonus: Darnell Moore
The third season of Justice in America launches February 26. You can find it on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcas...
10 Questions Bonus: Derecka Purnell
The third season of Justice in America launches February 26. You can find it on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcas...
10 Questions Bonus: Josie Duffy Rice
The third season of Justice in America launches February 26. You can find it on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcas...
10 Questions Bonus: Zak Cheney Rice
The third season of Justice in America launches February 26. You can find it on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcas...
10 Questions Bonus: Donovan X. Ramsey
The third season of Justice in America launches February 26. You can find it on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcas...
Season 3 Welcome!
Justice in America is a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform— from those new to the system to experts who want to know more. Eac...
Episode 20: Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition
On the last episode of Season 2, Josie and Clint discuss prison abolition with Mariame Kaba, one of the leading activists and organizers in the fight...
Episode 19: Restorative Justice
On this episode, we talk about an alternative to the traditional criminal adversarial process: restorative justice. Restorative justice focuses on rep...
Episode 18: Whatever happened to Clemency?
The pardon power is one of the strongest presidential powers in our constitution. The president alone has the ability to pardon or commute the sentenc...
Episode 17: Felony Murder
In prisons across America, people are serving decades-long sentences for crimes they didn’t commit. Some face a life sentence or even the death penalt...
Episode 16: A Conversation with Kim Foxx
Today we are talking to Kim Foxx, the head prosecutor of Cook County in Illinois. Cook County, which includes 135 separate municipalities including Ch...
Episode 15: Crime, Justice, and the Media
News stories about crime are found in every local paper or evening newscast nationwide. But stories about our criminal justice system are much less co...
Episode 14: Citizens United, Judicial Elections, and Mass Incarceration
How do judges affect mass incarceration, and what role do judicial elections play? Today we’re looking at a topic that doesn’t get a lot of attention...
Episode 13: Juvenile Justice
America has one of the harshest juvenile justice systems on the planet and is the only country in the world that sentences children to life without pa...
Episode 12: The Criminalization of Poverty
On this episode, we explore the countless ways the criminal justice system criminalizes poverty—and homelessness in particular. From what is considere...
Episode 11: Public Defense
On our first episode of season 2, we talk about one of the most important players in the criminal justice system – the public defender. What does it m...
Justice In America Season 2 Welcome!
Each show we discuss a topic in the American criminal justice system and try to explain what it is and how it works.
Season 2 we’ll be discussin...
Episode 10: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
For our last episode of the season, we are thrilled to have Ta-Nehisi Coates—an author and journalist who has published some of the most important and...