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Black Liberation and Justice in Detroit
What would it take to make Detroit a “just city” – an actual sanctuary of justice for its residents? Amanda Alexander, founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center is working on exactly that. Based on a wide range of experiences – from learning alongside ACT UP AIDS activists, to spending time in newly post-apartheid South Africa, to the Movement for Black Lives – Alexander combines her background as a historian and an attorney to reimagine safety and justice in Detroit.
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Shades of Freedom, Alexander weaves together her own experiences, and the long history of global civil rights movements, to discuss what’s going on right now in Detroit, including innovative supports for community members that prevent contact with the legal system in the first place, shifting funds from a focus on policing to prevention, and supporting communities to define and create their own safety.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist formed the bipartisan Task Force on Juvenile Justice Reform, the first of its kind in the state of Michigan.
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Lansing A bipartisan task force will undertake a year-long review of state policy, data and stakeholder input to guide reform of the state s criminal justice system.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer created the Bipartisan Task Force on Juvenile Justice Reform through executive order Wednesday to address Michigan s youth detention rate, which she said is one of the highest rates in the nation. We cannot allow an early mistake to define the rest of a child s life, especially with a nonviolent offense, Whitmer said during a Wednesday press conference.
The task force will include county and state leaders, members of the juvenile justice system, and Republican and Democratic lawmakers.