Add to ORKGOne of the core tenets of our criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. As the title of the Symposium recognizes, we have allowed our justice system to ignore that presumption for people living in poverty in a variety of ways. Instead, it often inflicts additional and harsher punishment on individuals because of their poverty
A New Yorker cartoon depicts a lawyer facing his client, asking the critical question: You\u27ve go...
Over thirty years ago the United States Supreme Court upheld an Oregon statute that allowed sentenci...
The Bay Area is home to a movement to challenge the money-bail system, which disproportionately impa...
One of the core tenets of our criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence until proven g...
The subject of my talk today is how the criminalization of poverty has become normalized in American...
Money matters in the justice system. If you can afford to purchase your freedom pretrial, if you can...
This dissertation focuses on the misdemeanor court system and how it regulates and manages millions ...
This Poverty Law Issue provides testimony as to why and how the legal profession, the government, an...
The facts and data are in and the conclusion they compel is bleak: the American criminal justice sys...
The current cash bail system works in a way that punishes poverty. In Robinson v. California, the Su...
Despite the promise of “Equal Justice Under Law” etched on the Supreme Court building, the outcomes ...
Debtors’ prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in...
Given the harsh reality that the quality of justice that people get in this country often depends on...
Debtors’ prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in...
The ration of legal services for the poor person accused of a crime has been remarkably thin in most...
A New Yorker cartoon depicts a lawyer facing his client, asking the critical question: You\u27ve go...
Over thirty years ago the United States Supreme Court upheld an Oregon statute that allowed sentenci...
The Bay Area is home to a movement to challenge the money-bail system, which disproportionately impa...
One of the core tenets of our criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence until proven g...
The subject of my talk today is how the criminalization of poverty has become normalized in American...
Money matters in the justice system. If you can afford to purchase your freedom pretrial, if you can...
This dissertation focuses on the misdemeanor court system and how it regulates and manages millions ...
This Poverty Law Issue provides testimony as to why and how the legal profession, the government, an...
The facts and data are in and the conclusion they compel is bleak: the American criminal justice sys...
The current cash bail system works in a way that punishes poverty. In Robinson v. California, the Su...
Despite the promise of “Equal Justice Under Law” etched on the Supreme Court building, the outcomes ...
Debtors’ prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in...
Given the harsh reality that the quality of justice that people get in this country often depends on...
Debtors’ prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in...
The ration of legal services for the poor person accused of a crime has been remarkably thin in most...
A New Yorker cartoon depicts a lawyer facing his client, asking the critical question: You\u27ve go...
Over thirty years ago the United States Supreme Court upheld an Oregon statute that allowed sentenci...
The Bay Area is home to a movement to challenge the money-bail system, which disproportionately impa...