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Criminal Justice

Taylor Dua in NJ Spark

Oct 27, 2019

‘Uniquely Vulnerable’: A Q&A with Laura Cohen on the ins and outs of juvenile confessions

TYLER ZUCKER in NJ Spark

Oct 23, 2019

Life After Prison: Finding a Career with Ban the Box

Keyshawna Johnson in NJ Spark

Mar 10, 2018

What Does Prison Really Have to Offer?: The Plainfield Series

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Dec 9, 2015

Breaking The Cycle of Mass Incarceration Is The Way To Second Chances

President Obama visited Newark one month ago to discuss issues in criminal justice, specifically the overcrowding of prisons, taxpayers’ expense, the challenges in rehabilitation, and the struggles prisoners…

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Nov 11, 2015

Are We Still Talking About Ferguson?: A Brief Valorization of “Twitter Activism”

It was the fall of 2014, and the nation was caught in a wave of protest.

Just a few months prior, two unarmed black men, 18-year old Michael Brown from Ferguson…

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Nov 10, 2015

N.J. Reducing Prison Population But Still Lacking

Within the past few years, New Jersey has become one of the leaders of reducing prison population in the United States, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.