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Bending The Bars album features music from artists incarcerated in Florida prisons

By JLUSA

June 27, 2025

A new hip-hop album takes us inside the Florida prison system – featuring fifteen artists in correctional facilities across the state.
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JustLeadershipUSA’s #HalfBy2030 Campaign Validated by New Analysis Published in The Atlantic Magazine

By JLUSA

June 26, 2025

Stanford University professor Keith Humphreys reports that “the next decade could see this goal [#HalfBy2030] met and exceeded.”
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Go shopping with Matt Sutton to buy an outfit for a job interview after reentry

By JLUSA

June 25, 2025

In a compelling “man on the street”-style video, Matt Sutton (Leading with Conviction™ 2023) shows how difficult it is to buy clothing after reentry.
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Mark Rice on proposed Wisconsin Office of the Ombudsperson for Corrections

By JLUSA

June 23, 2025

“Currently incarcerated people ... need to really be more at the center of decision-making.”
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Dominique Grant on Georgia’s new Survivor Justice Act

By JLUSA

June 17, 2025

LwC 2024 graduate Dominque Grant writes about Georgia's new Survivor Justice Act
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Saad Soliman on economic mobility for formerly incarcerated people — in USA Today

By JLUSA

June 16, 2025

“The U.S. economy loses between $78 and $87 billion annually in gross domestic product due to the employment barriers faced by [PwLE].”
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University of Chicago law professor challenges the idea that the 13th Amendment allows forced labor in prisons

By JLUSA

June 13, 2025

Adam A. Davidson: “I can recall no sentence hearing, brief or appellate record that has mentioned slavery or involuntary servitude as punishment.”
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JustUs Ideas Week wraps up in Philadelphia—JLUSA leaders showed up and showed out

By JLUSA

June 12, 2025

The inaugural JustUs Ideas Week is wrapping up today in Philadelphia, with more than 3,000 people registered, 100+ speakers, etc.
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Pauline Rogers on the prospect of reopening prison on Alcatraz Island

By JLUSA

June 11, 2025

Reopening [Alcatraz] would symbolize a return to punitive measures over rehabilitative approaches.
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Indy Easley leads Fresh Start program for formerly incarcerated people in Birmingham, Alabama

By JLUSA

June 9, 2025

The program builds toward long-term goals, says Fresh Start program manager Indy Easley (Leading with Conviction™ 2023).
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JLUSA leaders participate in National Economic Mobility & Opportunity Conference

By JLUSA

June 5, 2025

Last month, JLUSA Policy Analyst Zach Ruppel (Leading with Conviction™ 2021) joined Tony McCright (LwC 2022) for a panel discussion.
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JustLeadershipUSA Joins Nation’s Top Progressive and Conservative Groups to Develop New Set of Bipartisan Principles for Criminal Justice Policy

By JLUSA

June 3, 2025

Today, JLUSA, along with 13 prominent national organizations representing the political left and right, released a sweeping set of shared principles.