The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) team celebrates the courageous vision, work, and legacy of our Founding Executive Director, Amanda Alexander, as she steps down on July 1. Amanda has helped us all dream bigger.Read More
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
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
Once again we are joined together in a cycle of grief and rage at police violence. The conditions under which Black people live under threat in this country seem to have no end. Tyre Nichols should be alive today. Our hearts ache for his family, for his child and for his loved ones. He was...Read More
The contents of this report are a source of h o p e, reminding us how far we’ve come in our fight to shrink jails, prisons, and policing and realize true safety for our communities. Thousands of supporters have partnered with us in the last nearly 5 years to advance the movement for abolition. Thank...Read More
Detroiters have made themselves clear to City Council: we want to live in safe and vibrant communities with proven solutions for public safety, not bogus ones like more surveillance and policing. Today, the Detroit Justice Center, Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, and Schulz Law PLC filed a lawsuit against the Detroit City...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
