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Prioritizing the Community | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Prioritizing the Community: Funding Alternatives to Reduce Reliance on the Justice System in Oakland The city of Oakland is becoming a leading model for hospital- and community-based violence intervention programs. These…

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EJUSA Baton Rough team with Newark Mayor Mayor Ras Baraka

Centering Trauma, Healing Communities

For generations, communities of color have experienced deep mistrust of police, resulting from years of institutional racism and violence. Only after the 2014 police murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Ezell Ford, all within a month of each other, did discussions of police violence and accountability become a part of the larger national conscience….

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From the Field
Violence interventionist and Trauma to Trust participant Darren Miller

Exposing Trauma to Heal

Over 500 police and community members have completed in EJUSA’s Trauma to Trust program. Click here to learn more and participate. Summer sunlight poured through tall windows into the community room of a historic Newark building this past June. Long tables formed something like a horseshoe, with chairs lining the outer perimeter. A large projection…

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Announcement
Trauma to Trust, June 2019

Fall 2019, From Trauma to Trust: Police and Community Collaborative Training

This fall, Equal Justice USA is continuing to lead an effort to facilitate healing and build trust between the community and police with a goal of better responses to trauma in the wake of violence. A team of facilitators will be leading trainings on trauma-informed responses to violence with the Newark Police Department and Newark…

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Press Release
The Department of Justice building in Washington, DC

Federal Government Makes Terrible Decision to Resume Executions

Statement by Shari Silberstein, Executive Director of Equal Justice USA: “Despite substantial evidence that the death penalty is overrun by racism and the process preys upon the poor and those struggling with trauma, the federal government has made a choice to begin executing again. Executions and death sentences are at historic lows because, as a…

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Darrell Cannon, survivor of Chicago's police torture regime

For survivors of police torture, justice means education | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. For survivors of torture, justice means education, WBEZ For survivors of police torture in Chicago, repair meant more than a financial settlement. It meant educating the city’s youth on the realities of…

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Our Impact
A young girl stands with a microphone, encircled by a woman and man

Rewriting the Law Books

It’s been a long time since the death penalty has grabbed so much public attention. Where to begin? Maybe where you least expect it. Ending the death penalty nationwide: “You can feel the momentum…” Conservatives have become a force in the growing movement to repeal the death penalty. Leading off, there’s a good chance that…

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Reimagining Justice for Survivors | Reimagining Justice This Month

This is a special edition of Reimagining Justice This Month. In conjunction with National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, from April 7-13, we’re shining a light on stories about survivors of violence, and how they’ve responded to their experiences with trauma and healing.   Dealing with Trauma After A Mass Shooting — Over The Long Term, NPR…

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Profile
Lisa Good (right) is the founder of Urban Grief

Care, Dignity, and Respect: A Survivor’s Perspective

Some people are born into a vocation—whether it’s teaching, making art, or training to be a physician. They know from an early age and pursue their goals with laser focus. For others a career path winds and shifts directions as life intrudes and uncovers opportunities that weren’t previously apparent. Lisa Good belongs in that latter…

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Newark PD memorandum has huge potential for transformation

Today, the Newark Police Department has adopted a policy to end practices that for too long prevented survivors of trauma — specifically survivors of color — from accessing the support and healing services they need.   Over the past 2 years, EJUSA Senior Strategist Will Simpson has facilitated the South Ward Public Safety Roundtable alongside our…

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