After the dust settled on the 2022 elections, we spent the dark weeks of winter getting grips on the balance of political power across the country. And here we are. February. The plunge into legislative sessions is squarely upon us. Some states are already nearly done for the year, but the buzz is still loud…
In a year in which political campaigns and media drove public perception of rising crime to record highs, support for the death penalty in 2022 remains near the lowest it’s been in 50 years. Even among conservatives, support for the death penalty fell five percentage points, despite a barrage of media stoking fear in the…
EJUSA’s vision is a world where violence is rare and every community is safe and healthy. That means that we have a criminal legal system that doesn’t cause more harm. A full scale transformation of the criminal legal system and all the systems that connect to it is work that will take generations. We need…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The past two decades have brought a steady, state-by-state dismantling of the death penalty, and 2021 proved no different. We saw the first former Confederate state repeal the death penalty when Virgina Governor George Northam signed the state’s new law into the books. That stroke…
Reimagining Justice This Month | February 2020 Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. To combat gun violence, N.J. awards $20M to hospitals for intervention programs New Jersey isn’t the first state to see how violence intervention can…
California Halts Executions! Governor Gavin Newsom has announced an executive order that will halt all executions in the state of California. In addition to this, the order will also close the state’s death chamber and pull the current execution protocol. The governor called the practice of capital punishment “discriminatory, unjust, and inconsistent with our bedrock…
Late last week, Ohio Governor John Kasich granted clemency to Raymond Tibbetts and commuted his death sentence. Thousands of you sent emails, signed petitions, made phone calls, and mobilized friends and neighbors to make sure that Governor Kasich knew that the trauma Tibbetts experienced as a child had been withheld from the jury during his trial. Thank…
We’re less than a quarter into 2018, and the movement to end the death penalty has already made major strides in state capitols around the country. In Utah, a Republican-sponsored repeal bill passed out of a House committee for the first time ever. Two years ago, Utah came close to ending the death penalty but…
Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Race, History, Policing: A New Vision of Public Safety Conference, National Network for Safe Communities This video features EJUSA’s Trauma Advocacy Program Director Fatimah Loren Muhammad on a panel talking about community-driven,…
Reimagining Justice This Month is a monthly digest that highlights communities that are organizing for effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. “Georgia police chief to apologize for department’s role in 1940 lynching,” CBS News One of the recommendations to come out of EJUSA’s Police/Community Initiative…