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Image for post titled JLUSA leader Tracey Syphax says five-year window into Trenton Police will not paint a complete picture

JLUSA leader Tracey Syphax says five-year window into Trenton Police will not paint a complete picture

By JLUSA

October 25, 2023

JLUSA leader Tracey Syphax speaks out on Trenton Police Department investigation
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Public Service Announcement: 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.

By JLUSA

October 13, 2023

As 2023 marks 50 years of mass incarceration in America, The Sentencing Project has released a new Public Service Announcement, featuring Kemba Smith.
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Alabama seeks to cut the state’s recidivism rate in half by 2030

By JLUSA

October 11, 2023

The Director of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles writes about transforming reentry success through the Reentry 2030 initiative.
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JLUSA leaders in Tennessee publish op-ed on felony disenfranchisement and voting rights restoration

By JLUSA

October 4, 2023

JLUSA leaders in Tennessee, Dawn Harrington (Leading with Conviction™ 2017) and Keeda Haynes (Leading with Conviction™ 2022), write this week.
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Kemba Smith speaks on improving relations between the Black community and police in St. Louis

By JLUSA

October 2, 2023

St. Louis-area high school students, top police officials, and community advocates gathered recently to hear from JLUSA leader Kemba Smith.
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Congratulations to our Leading with Conviction™ 2023 graduates

By JLUSA

September 29, 2023

Congratulations to Leading with Conviction™ 2023 cohort graduates
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Lester Young speaks out on violence-plagued Alvin S. Glenn detention center in South Carolina

By JLUSA

September 28, 2023

JLUSA Senior Movement & Capacity Building Specialist Lester Young spoke to local Fox News affiliate in South Carolina about prison conditions.
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JLUSA leader Galen Baughman had to fight to get his voting rights restored — again

By JLUSA

September 27, 2023

Galen Baughman had his rights restored in ​2021, but when he went to vote in June 2023 primaries, he learned he’d been removed from the voter rolls.
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JLUSA leader Candice Bailey speaks on the trial of officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain

By JLUSA

September 22, 2023

“Everything that you see has been a direct result of the protests,” said Candice Bailey (Leading with Conviction™ 2023), who organized and led many.

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Washington state’s “New Hope Act” paves the way for Rep. Tarra Simmons and others to clear criminal records

By JLUSA

September 11, 2023

JLUSA leader Tarra Simmons (Leading with Conviction™ 2018) recently had convictions vacated from her record under a new state law.
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Dawn Harrington says felony disenfranchisement voter suppression in Tennessee is only getting worse

By JLUSA

August 30, 2023

JLUSA leader Dawn Harrington (Leading with Conviction™ 2017) has co-authored an op-ed on the latest attacks on voting rights in Tennessee.
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FDA’s proposed menthol ban will expand the “War on Drugs”

By JLUSA

August 23, 2023

Diane Goldstein writes, “If the ban is enacted, make no mistake: Black and Latinx communities will bear the brunt of associated law enforcement.”
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Brittany Lovely calls for voting rights to be restored to formerly incarcerated people

By JLUSA

August 21, 2023

Brittany Lovely (Leading with Conviction™ 2022) calls for voting rights to be restored to formerly incarcerated people
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JLUSA leader Pauline Rogers on Mississippi’s parole system

By JLUSA

August 15, 2023

Pauline Rogers — Leading with Conviction™ 2023 participant and founder of the R.E.C.H. Foundation — joined a recent panel discussion.
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DeAnna Hoskins and others call for Rikers to be placed into federal receivership

By JLUSA

August 9, 2023

Five members of the nine-person New York City Board of Correction have written an op-ed published today in the New York Daily News.
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Robyn Hasan speaks out on “horrific” conditions in Atlanta jails

By JLUSA

August 4, 2023

Leading with Conviction™ 2022 graduate Robyn Hasan speaks out on inhumane conditions in Atlanta jails

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