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Community-driven, trauma-informed solutions to public safety | Reimagining Justice This Month

By Fatimah Loren Muhammad / July 13, 2017

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,…

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Funding available for groups serving Native American Populations in California

By Latrina Kelly-James / June 22, 2017

California has opened an application process for organizations to apply for funds through the Federal Victims Of Crime Act (VOCA). If you are a Native American tribe, tribal nonprofit/community-based organization, or tribal consortium operating within a Tribal Court system in California, you may be eligible to apply through this RFP process. The maximum grant award is $200,000….

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Death Penalty in Decline, an Update from CCATDP

By Marc Hyden / November 23, 2016

The United States is slowly turning against the death penalty. Its end seems inevitable, but unfortunately, there were a few setbacks this year. Ballot initiatives in California and Nebraska fell short of passing. Despite this, I feel incredibly encouraged for several reasons. A recent Pew poll showed that support for the death penalty is at…

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last night

By Shari Silberstein / November 9, 2016

Last night was emotional and surprising. Many in America are mourning today; some are deeply afraid for their lives or their loved ones. Others are feeling heard in their suffering for the first time. Finding common ground across those kinds of differences isn’t easy, but it has fundamentally transformed me personally, and EJUSA’s work, over…

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Voters in three states face death penalty questions at the ballot box

By Sarah Craft / November 2, 2016

A Pew poll released last month found support for the death penalty dropped by seven points just in the last year and is at its lowest point since 1972. Executions have reached their lowest level in 25 years, with even Texas seeing record lows. Only a few counties continue to sentence people to death with…

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Recommended this week

By Sarah Craft / October 21, 2016

“Recommended this week” features highlights from the past week in news about the death penalty, crime survivors, and trauma-informed responses to crime. Three States to Watch if You Care About the Death Penalty, The Marshall Project Voters in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and California will face death penalty questions at the polls. The Marshall Project looks at what’s on the…

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Report: America’s outlier death penalty counties

By Sarah Craft / October 12, 2016

Harvard’s Fair Punishment Project released the second installment of a report showing the dysfunction in the use of the death penalty in the only 16 counties that continue to use it with any regularity. “Too Broken to Fix: An In-depth Look at America’s Outlier Death Penalty Counties,” looks at the 16 “outlier counties” – of 3,143 counties…

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Recommended this week

By Sarah Craft / July 29, 2016

“Recommended this week” features highlights from the past week in news about the death penalty, crime survivors, and trauma-informed responses to crime. Retain a Just Nebraska – Kirk Bloodsworth, Innocence The campaign to keep the death penalty out of Nebraska released its first TV spot this month, featuring the first man to be exonerated from death row…

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Funding available for groups serving survivors in California

By Latrina Kelly-James / July 26, 2016

California has opened an application process for organizations to apply for funds through the Federal Victims Of Crime Act (VOCA). This particular round of funding is reserved for advocacy and support services to unserved/underserved child and youth victims of a crime. (“Underserved” is defined by the state of California as: Cultural/Ethnic Specific Community; Geographically Isolated; Immigrants; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,…

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California: Stop experimenting with lethal injection!

By Sarah Craft / June 14, 2016

Thank you so much to everyone who has written to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) about the flaws in their proposed lethal injection procedures. Thousands of comments have been submitted, calling on California to leave executions is the past – where they belong. There is still time for you to speak out….

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Community-driven, trauma-informed solutions to public safety | Reimagining Justice This Month

Funding available for groups serving Native American Populations in California

Death Penalty in Decline, an Update from CCATDP

last night

Voters in three states face death penalty questions at the ballot box

Recommended this week

Report: America’s outlier death penalty counties

Recommended this week

Funding available for groups serving survivors in California

California: Stop experimenting with lethal injection!

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