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Harvard Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management brings you a series of in-depth conversations with the people on the front lines reforming the criminal legal syste...
Stacey Borden is the Founder and Executive Director of New Beginnings Reentry Services, Inc., which provides services to women coming home f...
Danielle Sered is the author of Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair. The book is based on her work as the fo...
Human trafficking happens here in the United States. More needs to be done to prevent and address it. At the same time, the law of human tra...
Sarah Seo is the author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. She explains how traffic enforcement fundamentally...
People with similar demographics, individual characteristics, and family and economic backgrounds have substantially different chances of ge...
Matthew Clair is the author of Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. In the book, he uncovers how privilege...
Alec Karakatsanis is the author of Usual Cruelty: the Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System and the founder of Civil Rights...
A national study commissioned by Public Rights Project revealed a massive enforcement gap in corporate abuse--with 54% of those surveyed say...
Most agree that the police are asked to do far too much, including tasks that they are not trained to do and so are ill-equipped to do well....
Wendy Still has achieved remarkable reductions in the probation population while serving as Chief Probation Officer of San Francisco and Ala...
We're back...with some updates and some new voices. Professor Sandra Susan Smith interviews Cat Brooks, founder of the Anti Police-Terror Pr...
While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...
While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...
While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...
While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...
We discuss mental illness and the criminal system with Alisa Roth, author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.
Alexandra Natapoff talks about her new book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes Ameri...
Emily Baxter is the founder of We Are All Criminals. In this episode, we examine the ways in which privilege serves to define criminality. Y...
Prison officials regularly block access to huge amounts of reading material for incarcerated people—and they do it in troublingly arbitrary...
This week we talk to Anand Swaminathan, an attorney at Loevy and Loevy—a national firm that does civil rights work adjacent to the criminal...
Holistic defenders in the Bronx saved their clients 1.1 million days of incarceration and saved taxpayers $165 million on housing costs alon...
By 2030, 1 in 3 people in prison will be 55 or older. We’ll discuss reform to address this trend and what the response to this trend tells u...
States provide money to people who have been victims of crime to reimburse them for the costs of their victimization—things like therapy, fu...
We discuss the need to abolish sex offense registries with Emily Horowitz, a professor of sociology & criminal justice and the author of Pro...
Andrea Ritchie is an attorney, organizer, and author of Invisible No More, a recent book about how Black women, Indigenous women, and women...
Rahsaan Hall is the Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’s What A Difference a DA Makes Campaign. We discuss progressive prosecution and th...
Trials are supposed to be a fundamental constitutional right. But in today’s criminal legal system, only 3% of federal cases are resolved at...
383,000 young people were placed on formal or informal probation supervision in 2014. Stephen Bishop, of the Annie E Casey Foundation, think...
The criminalization of cannabis was a foundational pillar of the New Jim Crow. Now, the decriminalization of cannabis might just make a smal...
Arch City Defenders advocates for poor people and people of color who are exploited by the municipal court system in St. Louis. Its Director...
People caught shoplifting can pay $400-$500 to a private company in return for a promise not to call the police and a "restorative justice"...
Boston's Sept. 4 District Attorney elections for have the potential to change the criminal legal system in Boston and be a model for progres...
This is the second episode in which we feature student scholarship coming out of HLS. We interview Andrew Hanna about a recent Third Circuit...
We reached out to all the criminal law professors at HLS and asked what student scholarship had really wowed them in the past year. In these...
Restorative justice is a paradigm-shifting approach to criminal justice. Fania Davis is a long-time social justice activist, a restorative j...
Brandon Garrett discusses the precipitous decline in death penalty sentences and executions and his new book, End of its Rope: How Killing t...
Pastor Donna Hubbard works with women who have been trafficked at her organization, the Women at the Well Transition Center, and helps train...
Carl Route describes life after prison as “the life sentence on the outside.” We explore the difficulties of life after prison with activist...
Nila Bala & Jesse Kelley of the R Street Institute help us understand the juvenile justice system and talk about their work to reform the sy...
Nila Balan & Jesse Kelley of the free market think tank, the R Street Institute, talk about a conservative perspective on criminal justice r...
Mayor Bill de Blasio has committed to close Rikers Island, NYC's primary jail. But how exactly do you do that? Elizabeth Glazer, Director of...
Women are the fastest growing population in US prisons and jails. At the same time, drug courts are proliferating and new emphasis is being...
Community bail funds pool community resources to pay the bail of people who can't afford to post bail while awaiting trial. They make an imp...
In this episode, we look again at the collateral consequences of involvement with the criminal legal system. "Crimmigration" is the complex...
Jonathan Rapping is the founder of Gideon's Promise, an organization dedicated to changing the culture of public defense. He'll describe why...
The use of big data in the criminal legal system raises some thorny legal, cultural, and ethical questions. What level of surveillance are w...
Beth McCann, the newly elected District Attorney of Denver talks to us about her work, what it means to be a progressive prosecutor, and the...
A small group of men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility fundraised nearly $8,000 from other men in the facility for a gun buyback. Bianca Ty...
Have you ever thought about what it means to make money off of caging other people? You should. Vanguard owns 19% of Core Civic, a company w...
Emma Ketteringham, Managing Director of the Family Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders, tells us how her clients fear the knock of of a...