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IEMI’s Joan Steffen writes for National Lawyers Guild on the power of radical infrastructure
Steffen explores how years of strengthening support networks and chipping away at carceral power took DNC Mass Defense to the next level.
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IEMI’s Joan Steffen and student attorney Kayleigh Hasson write in Chicago Tribune against IL’s $1.1B proposed prison project
The op-ed is part of the No New Prisons IL campaign IEMI is a member of.
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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.