Analysis & Commentary
Racial Justice
Community Oriented Defender Network | Spring 2010 Update
The COD Network is taking strides to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system and expand the Network’s reach. Read about our latest efforts to improve justice for indigent defendants and new opportunities for collaboration.
– 04/23/10
Rachel Maddow Speaks about felony disenfranchisement
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow speaks about Virginia Governor McDonnell’s new requirement to require people convicted of non-violent felonies to write an essay in order to get their voting rights restored..
– 04/14/10
The Right to Counsel: Is it Being Denied?
Authored by: Gabe Pressman
– 04/06/10
Erika Wood and Glenn Martin on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show
Erika Wood and Fortune Society’s Glenn Martin talk about Brennan Center’s new report, Jim Crow in New York.
– 03/30/10
Jim Crow haunts N.Y. blacks
A law enacted nearly 140 years ago—intended to disenfranchise African-Americans—is still in effect here today in New York.
Authored by: Erika Wood
– 03/12/10
Evaluating the Reentry Hurdles of Fees and Fines Debt: A Checklist for State Reentry Taskforces
Information on the re-entry consequences of court-imposed financial obligations.
Authored by: Mitali Nagrecha
– 03/10/10
N.Y.‘s poor get the short end of the gavel: Pass a law to improve access to attorneys
NY Daily News editorial from former Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau on the Hurrell-Harring case and the inadequacy of New York State's public defender system.
Authored by: Robert Morgenthau
– 02/11/10
It Isn’t Complicated: Restore the Vote to 300,000 Americans
A call to Governor Tim Kaine to use the last few days in his tenure to restore to a huge number of citizens their right to vote.
Authored by: Erika Wood
– 01/13/10
Working to Persuade the FCC to Change Phone Rates for Prisoners
The Brennan Center has worked to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to lower the exorbitant phone rates charged for calls made from many prisons and jails.
– 12/04/09