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IEMI Discusses Movement Lawyering, Anticarceral Infrastructure at Decarceral Visions Conference
Team members led the opening keynote panel and shared insights on other panels throughout the conference.
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IEMI joins over 185 Organizations Opposing Legislation Fast-Tracking a new Prison in eastern Kentucky
The letter is from the Building Community Not Prisons coalition, of which IEMI is a founding member.
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IEMI Fellow Brittany White appointed Director of Special Projects at The Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM)
White was previously the Institute’s Visiting Practitioner in Residence.
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IEMI and Partners Launch Coalition to Oppose New Prison in Eastern Kentucky
The coalition unites organizers and advocates opposing carceral infrastructure.
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Brittany White named Joint Visiting Practioner in Residence at Institute to End Mass Incarceration and Harvard Radcliffe Institute
White will work to develop a new program to train and support formerly incarcerated community organizers.
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Joan Steffen appointed as the Institute’s inaugural Postgraduate Fellow
Steffen will help IEMI develop and pursue strategies for decarceral collective action and movement-supportive lawyering.
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IEMI Calls on Senators to end biased questioning of public defenders nominated to the bench
Letter urges Senate Judiciary committee to stop treating public defenders as “less well-prepared for the bench than lawyers from prosecutor and civil practice backgrounds.”
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‘What can we do to help create 150 years of change in 10 years?’
The leaders of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration describe the Institute’s mission and its strategy for change.
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Executive Director Premal Dharia discusses importance of revising the D.C. criminal code with Revision Commission
The Commission is considering substantial reforms.
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IEMI Fellow Rachael Bedard writes in the New Yorker about the Indiana Women’s History Project
Taking on the notion of a “feminist” jail, Rachael Bedard shares insights from the anthology Who Would Believe a Prisoner?
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IEMI Director Andrew Crespo writes in the LPE Blog on the possibilities of defendant collective action
The essay connects to the Institute’s Collective Defense Project.
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia kicks off Inquest series about public defense
The series marks the 60th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright
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IEMI Fellow James Binnall publishes article about criminal history inquiries and inclusiveness in the legal profession
The authors show that law schools and state bars located in states with larger Black and Latino populations employ more probing criminal history inquiries.
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia co-authors opinion piece in USAToday about plea bargaining
In a piece co-authored with Christopher Kemmitt, a deputy director of litigation at the NAACP […]
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia Writes about Public Defense and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for CNN
Dharia describes the significance of having a former public defender on the bench.
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IEMI Director Andrew Crespo publishes article on plea strikes and defendant collective action
As part of a symposium on Subversive Lawyering published by the Fordham Law Review, IEMI […]
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IEMI Fellow Rachael Bedard writes in the New Yorker about Rikers Island
As a physician Bedard cared for the oldest and sickest people in New York’s jails.
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia reviews Redeeming Justice by Jarrett Adams in The Washington Post
Convicted at age 17 by an all-white jury, Jarrett Adams, a Black man who has since been exonerated and gone on to become a lawyer, wrote a memoir of his experiences.
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia joins NACDL opening plenary with national reform leaders about mass incarceration
The conference marks 50 years of surging prison populations.
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IEMI Executive Faculty Director joins Meet the Press to discuss the Supreme Court
Crespo previously served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court.
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IEMI Director Andrew Crespo discusses Defendant Unions and Plea Strikes at the Harvard Kennedy School
The talk describes IEMI’s Collective Defense work.
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IEMI Visiting Practitioner Brittany White, gives inspiring presentation on her work at Harvard Radcliffe Institute
White describes her work training formerly incarcerated individuals to practice community organizing and build people power.
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia interviewed about Plea Bargaining for 70 million podcast
The Peabody-nominated documentary podcast investigates how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards.
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Premal Dharia joins South Asian Bar Association panel discussion on Dobbs, criminalization and implications for privacy rights
The event occurred as states push to criminalize abortion and other reproductive care.
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IEMI Team Keynotes NACDL Presidential Summit on the Trial Penalty
The address drew from IEMI’s collective defense work.
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia speaks on panel about “Abolitionists, Public Defenders, and Prison Reformers” at NLADA national conference
The panel featured leaders from across the country.
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IEMI Director Premal Dharia discusses ending mass incarceration on Tuckered Out podcast
Dharia discusses why she thinks public defenders are key to systemic change within the criminal system.