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
By emphasizing political prisoners, Black August draws our attention to both a long legacy of Black folks’ resistance to oppression and the role of the prison in suppressing that resistance.Read More
The Detroit Justice Center supports efforts to eliminate the use of cash bail, a practice that consistently keeps many people who are presumed innocent behind bars as they await the resolution of their case simply because they are poor.Read More
DJC Announces their podcast Freedom Dreams, the show where we believe another world is possible and we’re talking to the people who are building it.Read More
Effective responses to violence—preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal—already exist. We need to learn from and invest in them—from Amanda Alexander and Danielle Sered in The Boston Review,Read More
