70% of working Detroiters travel outside of the city for work & 7% of Detroiters take public transportation regularly. These conditions are part of a recipe for wealth extraction and incarceration. Metro Detroit police and courts are engaging in what amounts to highway robbery of marginalized drivers, and the Detroit Justice Center has released a...Read More
A joint statement from the Detroit Justice Center and Just Leadership USA regarding the Clean Slate bill package that has stalled in the senate.Read More
Last week, Sonja Bonnett spoke beautifully at The Coalition for Property Tax Justice’s rally about the struggle Black Detroiters have faced in light of the illegal tax foreclosures across the city. [Various sources]Read More
In August 2019, the Detroit Justice Center invited the People's Paper Co-op to Detroit to do two days of workshops focused on uplifting community members with criminal records. Participants were able to shred their criminal records and make new paper from them as well as creating posters advocating for justice-involved people to be free of...Read More
