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Everyday Injustice
by Davis Vanguard
Davis Vanguard Podcast will be covering criminal justice reform, mass incarceration, wrongful convictions, and more.
Episodes
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 344: From Wrongful Arrest to Law School Graduate
More than two decades after being wrongfully arrested as a teenager in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Raymond Strawn has graduated from law school, overcoming years of trauma, financial hardship and discrimination that continued long after his acquittal. In Episode 344 of…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 343: CopStop SD Takes on Police Accountability
In Episode 343 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Laila Aziz of Pillars of the Community about CopStop SD, a new tool designed to document police misconduct complaints, track how authorities handle them and help San Diego residents navigate a police accountability system that...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 342: Reentry, Grace and the Power of Storytelling
In Episode 342 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald concludes the podcast’s series on Represent Justice’s ambassador program with Cecilia Zavala, executive director of Nation Outside and creator of the short film What Grace Leaves Behind. Zavala discusses her journey from incarceration and...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 341 — Using Film to Reimagine Justice, Reentry and Public Safety
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Represent Justice ambassadors Kenneth Webb and Cesar Garcia about how their experiences with incarceration, education and advocacy shaped two films examining reentry, surveillance, community and the meaning of public safety....
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 340: Films on Prison Labor, Reentry and Birth Behind Bars
Three filmmakers whose lives have been shaped by the criminal legal system join Everyday Injustice for a conversation about using storytelling to expose systemic injustice and advance meaningful change. In Episode 340, host David Greenwald speaks with Represent Justice ambassadors Marcus Kelly,...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 339: Transforming Justice Through the Power of Storytelling
In Episode 339 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Daniel Forkkio, director of Represent Justice, about the organization’s work empowering formerly incarcerated people to tell their own stories and use film as a vehicle for changing public perceptions of incarceration and the...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 338: Formerly Incarcerated Filmmakers Explore Healing Beyond Punishment
On Episode 338 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with filmmakers Julius Irving and Leigh Scott as part of the Represent Justice series “Pathways Beyond Criminalized Crises,” a collection of films created by formerly incarcerated people that examines what can happen when healing,...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 337: The Death Penalty’s Politics, Failures and Enduring Appeal
On Episode 337 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald welcomes back Marc Bookman, legal director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation and author of Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays, for a wide-ranging discussion about capital punishment at a moment when...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 336: When Bias Turns Innocence Into Guilt
On Everyday Injustice Episode 336, host David Greenwald speaks with Valena Beety, a nationally recognized wrongful convictions litigator, former federal prosecutor and law professor, about how stereotypes surrounding gender and sexuality can contribute to innocent people being convicted and...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 334: Trauma-Informed Criminal Defense with Attorney Ernie Stone
In Episode 334 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Massachusetts criminal defense attorney Ernie Stone about the growing importance of trauma-informed criminal defense and why understanding clients’ life experiences is essential to effective representation. Drawing on nearly…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 333: Justine van der Leun on Criminalized Survivors and the Women Behind Unreasonable Women
In Episode 333 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with journalist and author Justine van der Leun about her new book, Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment and Extraordinary Survival. The conversation explores a troubling reality within the criminal legal...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 332: Dr. Elizabeth Ostler Turns Family Tragedy into Theater and Advocacy
On this week’s episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Ostler, founder of the Communal Theater Company and creator of the upcoming play “SisterPlay,” a deeply personal work inspired by the death of her sister Lisa while detained in the Salt Lake County Jail....
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 330: How Court Debt Entrenches Poverty and Punishment
On Episode 330 of the Everyday Injustice podcast, host David Greenwald examines one of the most overlooked yet devastating aspects of the criminal legal system: the widespread use of fines and fees as a mechanism of punishment and revenue generation. Joined by Joanna Weiss and Priya Sarthy-Jones…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 329: How Death Investigations Obscure Police Violence
In Episode 329 of Everyday Injustice, the podcast features a wide-ranging and deeply probing conversation with UCLA professor Terrence Keel, a leading scholar examining the intersection of race, science and public institutions. The discussion centers on his new book, The Coroner’s Silence, which...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 328: Matilde Hernandez on Healing, Reentry and Rewriting Your Story
On Episode 328 of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Matilde Hernandez, a wellness consultant, author and speaker whose life was transformed by incarceration and the long journey that followed. Hernandez shares how a first-time case in Georgia led to a prison sentence she says…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 327: Prof. Doleac on the Science of Second Chances
In a wide-ranging conversation on Everyday Injustice, economist and policy researcher Jennifer Doleac argued that criminal justice reform should be driven less by ideology and more by evidence. Discussing her book The Science of Second Chances, Doleac said policymakers often adopt programs that...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 326: Water Contamination Allegations Emerge From Mule Creek, Impacting Ione, Calif.
A newly discussed investigative report is drawing renewed attention to allegations that contaminated water and failing infrastructure at Mule Creek State Prison may be harming both incarcerated people and residents in the nearby town of Ione. Journalist Emily Nonko said the issue has received far...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 325: Civil Rights Activists Organized Against Police Power
In the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with historian Professor Josh Clark Davis of the University of Baltimore to explore a critical but often overlooked dimension of the civil rights era—organized resistance to police violence. Drawing from his new book…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 324: Bipartisan Reform, Housing Barriers, and the Fight for a Fair Future
In Episode 324 of the Everyday Injustice podcast, host David Greenwald sits down with Kandia Milton, government affairs director at Dream.org, for a wide-ranging conversation on criminal justice reform, reentry, and the persistent structural barriers facing people returning from incarceration....
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 323: Eric Morrison-Smith on Systems Change, Youth Justice, and Building Alternatives to Punishment
In Episode 323 of the Everyday Injustice podcast, host David Greenwald sits down with Eric Morrison-Smith, Executive Director of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, for a wide-ranging conversation on criminal justice reform, systemic inequality, and the urgent need to rethink how society...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 322: Oklahoma Survivors Act Highlights Tension Between Trauma, Justice, and Prosecutorial Resistance
A groundbreaking Oklahoma law intended to provide relief to survivors of domestic violence serving long prison sentences is revealing just how difficult it remains for the criminal legal system to grapple with trauma, accountability, and mercy. Investigative journalist Pamela Colloff, who…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 321: Raising Questions About Plea Deals and Withheld Evidence
A new episode of the Everyday Injustice podcast examines the controversial case of Curtis Davis Jr., a Mississippi man whose conviction is raising troubling questions about prosecutorial conduct, plea bargaining and the withholding of potentially exculpatory evidence. The episode features a...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 320: How Police Unions Built Political Influence
On the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with historian Stuart Schrader of Johns Hopkins University to examine the political rise of police unions and their growing influence in American public life. Schrader’s forthcoming book, Blue Power: How Police Organized…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 319: Finding Inner Freedom Behind Bars
Meditation, Redemption and the Promise of Reentry In the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald revisits the transformative power of meditation inside prison walls, bringing back longtime meditation teacher Doina Durbin and introducing Doug, a formerly incarcerated man whose...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Special Episode -Women Beyond Walls
This week, Everyday Injustice brings listeners a special episode, featuring an installment of the podcast Women Beyond Walls, a series that centers the voices and lived experiences of women directly impacted by incarceration. Rather than relying on stereotypes or abstractions, the podcast...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 318: From Soldier to Storyteller
Jerry “JD” Mathis on Reentry, Shame, and Finding a Voice On this episode of the Everyday Injustice podcast, host David Greenwald speaks with Jerry “JD” Mathis, an award-winning author, PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow, and formerly incarcerated writer whose work centers on mass…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 317: Andre Brown, Wrongful Convictions, and the Limits of Finality
In this episode of the Everyday Injustice Podcast, host David Greenwald is joined by Jeffrey Deskovic, Oscar Michelen, and Andre Brown for an unvarnished conversation about a wrongful conviction case that nearly resulted in a second, devastating return to prison. Brown, who spent 23 years...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 316: Fr Prosecutor on Retaliation, Accountability, Truth Telling
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Tracy Miller, a veteran prosecutor whose career inside one of the nation’s largest district attorney’s offices ended not with honors, but with retaliation, isolation, and a landmark lawsuit. Miller spent 25 years at the…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 315: Public Defense, Felony Murder, Limits of Incarceration
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association, about the mounting crisis in California’s public defense system and what it reveals about deeper structural failures in the criminal legal...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 314: Hakeem McFarland on Purpose, Accountability, Transformation
Choosing Yourself Before Life Forces the Choice On the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Hakeem McFarland, a motivational speaker, wellness coach, author, and the founder of the Choose Yourself Movement, a philosophy built around reclaiming identity…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 313: Humanizing Prison Through Visitation and Presence
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Shazad Carbaidwala, a longtime volunteer and board member with Prisoner Visitation and Support, a national organization that provides consistent, face-to-face visits to incarcerated people in federal facilities across the...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 312: Confronting the Fastest-Growing Prison Population
Women are now the fastest-growing population in the criminal legal system, yet policy, practice and public understanding continue to lag behind that reality. On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Stephanie Akhter, director of the Women’s Justice Commission at the...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 311: Confronting the Criminalization of Trauma
The newest episode of Everyday Injustice features three powerful voices from Represent Justice’s ambassador program, each sharing deeply personal experiences with trauma, incarceration and healing. Emmanuel Noble Williams, John Medina Jr., and Angelique Todd describe how childhood violence,...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 310: Youth Incarceration, Superpredators, Fight for Real Safety
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, we sit down with journalist and author Nell Bernstein, one of the nation’s leading voices on youth incarceration and the failures of the juvenile punishment model. Bernstein is the author of Burning Down the House and her newly released book, In Our Future…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 309: A Story of Survival, Injustice, and Hope
For nearly 42 years, Gary Tyler lived with a sentence that was never rooted in truth, fairness, or genuine evidence. Arrested at age 16 in Louisiana and accused of killing a white teenager during a moment of racial violence in 1974, Tyler was quickly swept into a system determined not to find the...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 308: California’s Public Defense Crisis
On this episode of the Everyday Injustice Podcast, host David Greenwald speaks with Josh Schwartz and Leon Parker of the Wren Collective, a policy and communications organization working to reform the criminal legal system and strengthen public defense nationwide. The conversation centers on a…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 307: Stories of Reentry and Resilience
In a new episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with three formerly incarcerated filmmakers — Dana Dickerson, Heather Jarvis, and Naje “Gigi” Webster — to explore the emotional and systemic realities of life after prison. Produced in partnership with Represent Justice, the...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 306: CA Policy Lab Researcher on Re-Sentencing and Recidivism
In this week’s episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Alissa Skog, a researcher at the California Policy Lab, about her team’s new report on California’s expansive re-sentencing policies and their impact on recidivism. Skog explains that California has gone further than...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 305: Jared Fishman on Policing, Reform, and Fragile Institutions
In this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald talks with former federal prosecutor Jared Fishman, author of Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina. Fishman revisits the 2005 killing of Henry Glover by New Orleans police...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 304: The Serenity of Meditation in Prison
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Doreena Durbin, founder of a transformative prison meditation program in Texas. A former musician turned meditation teacher, Durbin’s path has been as unconventional as it is inspiring. Her book, An Inner Life: Freedom Is…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 303: Daniel Forkkio - Building Narrative Power for Justice
In this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Daniel Forkkio, CEO of Represent Justice, a national organization that amplifies the voices of formerly incarcerated people through storytelling. Forkkio explains that Represent Justice partners with filmmakers, advocates…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 302: Legal Disruption and the Fight for Justice
A Conversation with Courtney Teasley On this episode of Everyday Injustice, attorney and activist Courtney Teasley shares her journey from growing up in East Nashville during the crack epidemic to becoming what she calls a “legal disruptor.” Teasley defines this role as going beyond the bare...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 301: How Fines and Fees Punish Poverty and Destabilize Budgets
The latest episode of Everyday Injustice takes on one of the least understood but most destructive aspects of the criminal legal system: fines and fees. Host David Greenwald speaks with Lillian Patil and Tanisha Pire of the Fines and Fees Justice Center about their new report, Imposing…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 301: David Gaspar Explains Why Bail Reform Is Matter of Justice
On the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with David Gaspar, CEO of The Bail Project, for a powerful conversation about the inequities of America’s bail system. The discussion opens with an exploration of how cash bail disproportionately punishes poor and...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 300: Mac Muir Discusses Policing, Oversight, and Fight for Reform
Mac Muir, former senior investigator with New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board and author of Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing, joined Everyday Injustice to discuss his years of investigating misconduct and the systemic failures he witnessed firsthand. Muir, who...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 299: Adam Clausen Goes From 213 Years to Social Impact
On this week’s episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with Adam Clausen, director of Innovation and Social Impact, whose life story embodies both the failures and possibilities of the American justice system. Once sentenced to 213 years in federal prison, Clausen not only...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 298: Federal Crackdown in LA Sparks Fears of Rights Violations
Martha Arevalo, executive director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) in Los Angeles, described an atmosphere of fear and chaos as federal authorities escalate enforcement in immigrant communities. Speaking on Everyday Injustice, she said residents are facing armored vehicles…
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 297: Tony Viola Details Ordeal of Wrongful Conviction
In the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, Tony Viola, a former Cleveland real estate professional, shares his story of being wrongly accused and convicted in what was billed as the nation’s largest mortgage fraud case. Viola was indicted in both state and federal court, accused of stealing $46...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 295: Kara Gotsch on Ending Excessive Sentencing and Mass Incarceration
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with Kara Gotsch, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project, for a wide-ranging conversation about the ongoing challenges—and hard-won progress—toward ending mass incarceration in the United States. Gotsch opens with a stark...
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 294: Wrongly Convicted and Powerfully Resilient
Anna Vasquez on Everyday Injustice On the latest episode of the Everyday Injustice podcast, host David Greenwald speaks with Anna Vasquez, a survivor of wrongful conviction and now Director of Outreach and Education for the Innocence Project of Texas. Vasquez was one of four women—collectively...
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Davis Vanguard Podcast will be covering criminal justice reform, mass incarceration, wrongful convictions, and more.
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