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Rob Smith
Let’s make our justice system more humane. @Harvard_Law’s @fairpunishment. Email: rosmith@law.harvard.edu
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Jake Sussman
Managing Director of the Fair Punishment Project
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Matt Henry
Lead technologist and staff attorney at Harvard Law’s @FairPunishment Project.
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Burke Butler
Director of Journalism at The Fair Punishment Project
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Ethan Brown
Queens Reigns Supreme, Snitch, Shake the Devil Off, Murder in the Bayou. http://amzn.to/2cxeMc4
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Mehak Anwar
Mehak is a 2017 Outreach fellow at Brave New Films.
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D.E. Rasso
All opinions and viewpoints are of the decidedly personal, non-professional variety.
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Bobbie Johnson
Causing trouble since 1978. Former lives at Medium, Matter, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian.
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pdx law grrrl
Criminal defense attorney in Portland, Oregon.
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Sarah Leonard
Executive Editor at In Justice Today
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Indhira Rojas
Creative Director. Founder of Anxy Magazine www.anxymag.com / www.redindhi.com
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Jessica Brand
Legal Director, Fair Punishment Project, @jbrand07
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Martin MacDonald
Founder, MOG Media Inc.
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Writers
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Matt Henry
Lead technologist and staff attorney at Harvard Law’s @FairPunishment Project.
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Larry Hannan
Larry Hannan is a reporter and researcher at the Fair Punishment Project at Harvard University. Contact him at larry.hannan@fairpunishment.org or @larryhannan
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Rebecca McCray
Journalist. Bylines: Slate, Rolling Stone, The Appeal, The Village Voice, Women’s Media Center, etc.
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Violeta Raquel Chapin
Violeta Raquel Chapin is a Clinical Professor of Law at UC Boulder. She served seven years as a trial attorney with the Public Defender Service of DC (PDS)
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Jake Sussman
Managing Director of the Fair Punishment Project
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Edgar De Leon
Edgar De Leon has worked as a Detective-Sergeant and an attorney for the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
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Carimah Townes
Reporter for the Fair Punishment Project. Contact me: carimah.townes@fairpunishment.org
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Benjamin Levin
Benjamin Levin is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado where he teaches criminal law & procedure. Follow him on Twitter @hashtagblevin.
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Nick Encalada-Malinowski
Social Worker. Writer. Organizer. NYC.
Go to the profile of Nick Encalada-Malinowski
Nick Encalada-Malinowski
Nick Encalada-Malinowski is a social worker, writer and organizer. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Michelle S. Phelps
Asst. Prof. of Sociology at U of Minnesota, tweets about prison, #massprobation, policing, and cute animals.
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Bidish Sarma
Attorney. Formerly a Clinical Teaching Fellow at Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic. Formerly Deputy Director of the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans.
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Leah Litman
Assistant Professor of Law, @UCILaw. Studies con law, federal courts, & post-conviction review. @ShallTakeCare blogger. No arcana like habeas arcana.
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Alex S. Vitale
Coordinator of the Policing & Social Justice Project @ Brooklyn College. Regular contributor to @TheNation & @gothamgazette. Author of The End of Policing
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Jessica Pishko
jessicapishko.com
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Judge Mark W. Bennett
Mark W. Bennett was appointed a United States district court judge in the Northern District of Iowa on August 26, 1994, by President William Jefferson Clinton.
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Alyesha Wise
Poet, Teaching Artist & TEDx Speaker from Camden, N.J. Author of Carnival. Coach, @GetLitPoet, @DaPoetryLounge. Living in Los Angeles. | @MsWise
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Vida B. Johnson
Vida B. Johnson is a criminal defense lawyer and teaches the criminal defense clinics at Georgetown Law
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Daniel Medwed
Law Prof @Northeastern University & Legal Analyst @WGBH News
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Jonathan Blanks
Writer, Researcher, Communicator; www.JonathanBlanks.com; Twitter: @blanksslate
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Mehak Anwar
Mehak is a 2017 Outreach fellow at Brave New Films.
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Waseem Salahi
Waseem Salahi is an attorney at the Bronx Defenders, working as a legal fellow for the Fair Punishment Project.
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Robert Greenwald
Founder of @bravenewfilms. Director of Making A Killing, Koch Brothers Exposed, Outfoxed, Unmanned, & Wal-Mart. http://youtube.com/BraveNewFilms/subscribe
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Jocelyn Simonson
Assistant Professor, Brooklyn Law School, studying criminal justice & social change. On Twitter @j_simonson, writings available at https://ssrn.com/author=70055
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Anna Roberts
Anna Roberts is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where she teaches and writes about evidence, criminal procedure, and criminal law.
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Scott Hechinger
Senior Staff Attorney & Director of Policy @ Brooklyn Defender Services (http://BDS.org). Thoughts & observations from the frontlines of (in)justice.
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Aviva Shen
New Orleans-based journalist writing on criminal justice.
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Shaun King
Husband, Father, Journalist, Activist.
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Glenn E. Martin
Founder @justleadersusa & @CLOSErikers. 6 yrs in prison taught me that those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. #HalfBy2030 #JLUSA
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Cassandra Stubbs
Cassy is the director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. She has represented death row inmates and defendants in trials and appeals throughout the South.
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Jennifer Laurin
Law professor and criminal justice junkie at the University of Texas School of Law
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Michael Skolnik
Entrepreneur, Activist and Storyteller. Father to the champ, Mateo Ali. Board Member, Trayvon Martin Foundation. Contact: info@mskolnik.com
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Vincent M. Southerland
Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU School of Law
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Roy L. Austin
Roy L. Austin, Jr. is a partner with the law firm of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, where he practices trial litigation.
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Michael Arria
Journalist. Twitter: @michaelarria
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Max Rivlin-Nadler
Reporting on criminal justice and immigration for In Justice Today.
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Eric Alexander
Eric Alexander is youth justice advocate at the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, and founder of the Incarcerated Children’s Advocacy Network.
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Udi Ofer
Deputy National Political Director, @ACLU, and Director of the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice. Goal? End mass incarceration.
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Wendi C. Thomas
Memphis journalist. When the issue is justice, charity is sin. Like MLK, I refuse to play it safe. RTs = nada
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Law Professor, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law. Author, “The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement” @ProfFerguson
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Marc Bookman
Marc Bookman is the co-director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, a non-profit agency helping adults and juveniles facing severe punishments.
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Meaghan Ybos
Co-founder and director, People for the Enforcement of Rape Laws
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Melissa Gira Grant
Senior reporter, In Justice Today. Author, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.
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Ted Hamm
Editor of Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn (Akashic Books, 2017). Covers Brooklyn and crim justice for In Justice Today, Daily Beast, et al. @Hammerdaily
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Maura Ewing
Freelance reporter in Philly.
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Heather Schoenfeld
Sociologist; Assistant Professor, Northwestern University; Author of Building the Prison State (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
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Burke Butler
Director of Journalism at The Fair Punishment Project
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Jessica Brand
Legal Director, Fair Punishment Project, @jbrand07
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Bryce Covert
Journalist writing about the economy.
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Stephanie Kollmann
Policy Director, Children and Family Justice Center, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
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Guy Hamilton-Smith
Law grad, civil rights activist, and author writing about criminal justice, sex offense policy, media, and culture. @G_Padraic
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Zachary A Siegel
covering public health and mental health
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Seth Ferranti
Writer/Producer/Filmmkaer- Check out WHITE BOY and EASTER BUNNY ASSASSIN
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Kade Crockford
Kade Crockford is the director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts and an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow.
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Reggie Shuford
Tarheel by birth and education, civil rights lawyer and activist by profession . . . all opinions herein are my own. Twitter: @reggieshuford
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Callie Heller
Callie works as a Staff Attorney at the Fair Punishment Project and at the Powell Project.
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Heather Marlowe
Co-founder of People for the Enforcement of Rape Laws. My play, The Haze, is responsible for exposing SFPD’s untested rape kits.
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Brian Stull
I defend those the government seeks to execute. Senior Staff Attorney American Civil Liberties Union, Capital Punishment Project. Views my own.
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Emma Whitford
Reporter in Brooklyn. Words in @gothamist (rip), @nymag, @FairPunishment, @villagevoice, etc.
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In Justice Today
In Justice Today produces compelling, original journalism and commentary on the subject of criminal justice reform.
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Vince Beiser
Full-time freelancer specializing in deeply reported articles on important issues around the world.
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Lee Kovarsky
Lee is a Law Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, and the Director of the Powell Project.
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Brandon Soderberg
Writing a book about Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force. Reviewing weed for the Colorado Springs Independent. Formerly: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore Beat, SPIN
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Aaron Cynic
Aspiring coot, mithrandir, political afficianado. Wandering indie journalist. Chicagoist alum. Will write/shoot photos for money/food/beer. Twitter: @aaroncynic
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Jon Campbell
Journalist based in New York. Criminal justice and more. @j0ncampbell
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Christopher Moraff
Christopher Moraff covers the intersection of policing, criminal justice, drug policy and civil liberties. He is co-host of the podcast Narcotica.
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Colin Miller
Professor and Associate Dean, University of South Carolina School of Law; Co-Host, Undisclosed Podcast
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Victoria Law
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance and the author of Resistance Behind Bars.
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Prince Shakur
AUTHOR of WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE GOOD | Twitter @prshakur | https://princeshakur.carrd.co/
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Thomas Dybdahl
Tom Dybdahl recently retired after working as a public defender in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
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Raven Rakia
Freelance journalist and researcher. Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/ravenrakia
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Lauren Gill
Freelance journalist writing about justice. Formerly @Newsweek @Brooklyn_Paper
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John Pfaff
Professor, Fordham Law School. Interested in incarceration, punishment, and the criminal justice system.
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John Pfaff
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School. Criminal justice and mass incarceration quant. Author of Locked In, and usually found on Twitter @johnfpfaff.
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Alex Hannaford
Alex writes about the death penalty, crime, harsh sentencing, religion, culture and human rights issues for magazines in the US and UK. @AlHannaford
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Jake Offenhartz
Reporter based in New York City.
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Steven Yoder
Steven Yoder covers criminal justice for national magazines and news sites. His work has appeared in The American Prospect, Al Jazeera America and elsewhere.
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Andrea Armstrong
Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law. She writes and teaches about incarceration, race and the U.S. constitution.
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Brenden Beck
Brenden Beck is a PhD candidate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center
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Aviva Stahl
a Brooklyn-based investigative journalist who writes about institutional failures to protect the most vulnerable
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George Joseph
Reporter, In Justice Today. To get in touch securely, email gmjoseph@protonmail.com with a protonmail account or text him on Signal at 929–282–2471.
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Amelia McDonell-Parry
Writer // Reporter // Podcaster // Weaver // Dog Mom
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Lisa Sangoi
is an advocate, researcher, writer and sometimes a lawyer. She is fighting the child protection system's policing and punishment of parents.
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Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Esquire and The New York Times, among others.
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