Detroit-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and poet Cozine Welch joins the Detroit Justice Center to develop No More Heroes: a visionary performance work about what freedom really looks like in the body, long after the bars are gone.Read More
An open letter from women serving long time at the Huron Valley Women's prison about how to improve the conditions at the prison and also significantly reduce the population inside the prison in order to make conditions safer.Read More
Last November, DJC launched our 2025 year-end fundraising campaign—Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win. We’re deeply grateful to share that, with your support, we hit our goal and have already begun putting these funds to work in service of local movements fighting for liberation.Read More
Detroit ended 2025 with one of its lowest homicide totals in decades. The number is striking — and incomplete. In this conversation, our executive director, Nancy A. Parker, joins Robyn Vincent to talk about the long, sometimes invisible work that shapes public safety: housing stability, community trust, movement lawyering, and the slow effort to repair...Read More
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced the Stop Body Camera Paywalls Act to prevent local and state governments from restricting access to police body camera footage behind an obstructive paywall. DJC supports the bill.Read More
