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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

The Institute to End Mass Incarceration joined over 50 national, state, and local organizations calling on members of the Senate Judiciary committee to stop treating public defenders as "less well-prepared…

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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 Faculty Director Andrew Crespo works with students to overturn a policy exacerbating mass incarceration in Washington, DC.

Harvard Law School students under the supervision of Executive Faculty Director Andrew Crespo appeared in federal court to challenge a federal policy in Washington, DC, that doubles prison sentences for…

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Should People with Felony Convictions Serve on Juries

Read coverage in Harvard Magazine of an event hosted by the Institute discussing the importance of protecting the right of people convicted of crimes to continue serving on juries.

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Executive Director Premal Dharia tells Congress to fight mass incarceration by ending injustices of pretrial detention

Executive Director Premal Dharias tells Congress that there are "important measures Congress could undertake to address our country's addiction to incarceration and punishment and the crisis of mass incarceration that…

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