Our Founding Executive Director, Amanda Alexander, will be stepping down from her role on July 1st. After an 18 month transition process, we are thrilled to introduce you to Nancy A. Parker and Felicia Thomas, DJC’s new Co-Executive Directors!Read More
Nancy Parker delivers an op-ed that reveals the negligence from city council members as they violated the Community Input Over Government Surveillance (“CIOGS”) Ordinance in the process of approving the purchase of expanding ShotSpotter technology in Detroit. Upon this discovery, the Stop ShotSpotter Detroit Coalition filed a lawsuit against the City for its failure to...Read More
While Clean Slate is a positive step forward, we believe that this bill package can still be expanded further to benefit Michigan’s most over-criminalized populations.Read More
Detroiters have been fighting displacement for decades due to illegal tax foreclosures and evictions. As the narrative of the city’s revitalization has been touted in the media, thousands of Detroit residents continue to face housing insecurity. Through a growing movement for housing justice, DJC is helping bring these practices to an end.Read More
“There is not one model or one program that is going to make us safe. There is not one alternative that is going to replace prison. That is not the formula. It’s like, what is the whole range of the kind of thing we should do that cumulatively is gonna keep us safe?” – Danielle...Read More
“We can do incredible things from a technological medical care standpoint. Right? Like there’s been incredible advances in healthcare and with some of the things that we have in terms of like stopping bleeds and doing all these things right to prolong life. But, you know, I knew that there was a gap in terms...Read More
“What if you can still feel a sense of justice without reaching out to the legal system? What if you still can have access to healing without punishment? What if this person who harmed you can do the hard work to never harm anyone ever again? Would that feel like justice for you? And if...Read More
This season on Freedom Dreams we’re amplifying community-led solutions to violence and harm. We called on some of the boldest people we know to learn lessons from what they’re building. And of course, we asked them what their freedom dreams are. Our new season begins tomorrow, February 22nd! On our first episode of season two...Read More
ID: Amanda Alexander smiling in the DJC Office in front of a yellow wall with the DJC Logo on it. She is wearing a dark blue patterned dress and has dangly earrings. Dear friends, I moved back to Michigan almost a decade ago to serve families like mine that had been divided by incarceration. At...Read More
The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is celebrating a recent win. Last week, the Michigan Supreme Court outlawed automatic life sentences for young people convicted of first-degree murder that transpired when they were 18 years old (People v. Parks). The MI Supreme Court also published two opinions and an order that assists with extending the U.S....Read More
