Publications
Racial Justice
Community Oriented Defense: Stronger Public Defenders
Authored by: Melanca Clark & Emily Savner
– 07/21/10
Racial Disparities in Federal Prosecutions
Authored by: Brennan Center for Justice & the National Institute on Law and Equity
– 04/14/10
Improving Judicial Diversity
Looking at racial diversity on the bench, report finds too few states make efforts to systematically attract racially diverse judicial applicants. Authors offer recommendations and best practices to solving this disparity.
Authored by: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Monique Chase and Emma Greenman | Foreword by Susan Liss
– 03/03/10
Jim Crow in New York
Authored by: Erika Wood and Liz Budnitz
with Garima Malhotra
introduction by Charles Ogletree
– 02/12/10
Foreclosures: A Crisis in Legal Representation
This report discusses the foreclosure crisis in terms of the larger crisis of the poor’s lack of access to civil legal representation. Anecdotal and empirical evidence show that in the areas hardest hit by foreclosures, Americans are not getting the legal help they need. The report highlights the many ways lawyers can help save families’ homes from foreclosure and recommends various policy steps to be taken on the national and state levels to increase access to attorneys for the most vulnerable.
Authored by: Melanca Clark with Maggie Barron
– 10/06/09
Language Access in State Courts
This report outlines the legal obligations of state courts regarding the provision of interpreters for litigants with limited English proficiency, aggregates information on how states are meeting these obligations and provides guidelines for state courts' language access programs.
Authored by: Laura Abel
– 07/04/09
Restoring the Right to Vote
Despite a history of expanding the franchise, there remains one significant blanket barrier to the franchise. 5.3 million American citizens are not allowed to vote because of a felony conviction. As many as 4 million of these people live in our communities, but are still denied the right to vote because of a prior conviction.
Authored by: Erika Wood
– 05/11/09
Voter Purges
This report is one of the first systematic examinations of voter purging, a practice—often controversial—of removing voters from registration lists in order to update state registration roll. After a detailed study of the purge practices of twelve states, Voter Purges reveals that election officials across the country are routinely striking millions of voters from the rolls through a process that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error, and vulnerable to manipulation.
Authored by: Myrna Pérez
– 09/30/08
Incarcerated People and the Census
Painting a distorted picture of Virginia. This report outlines the state level effects of the United States Census Bureau’s policy for counting prison populations.
Authored by: Patricia Allard and Chris Muller
– 01/11/05