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April 28, 2025
Spend money on people, not prisons
Minnesota Reformer
February 26, 2025
Minnesota Women's Press
December 27, 2024
Insight News
May 9, 2024
Timberwolves All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns named NBA's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion
StarTribune
January 23, 2024
Re-Imagining Justice in Minnesota
MPR News
May 19, 2023
Minnesota Abolishes Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences
Equal Justice Initiative
March 31, 2023
KSTP Channel 5
January 18, 2023
State Policy Makers Discuss Criminal Justice Reform
Minnesota Women's Press
May 20, 2022
Richfield resident, Justin Terrell, named 2021 Bush Fellow
Sun Current
February 4, 2022
Minnesotans react to the fatal shooting of Amir Locke by Minneapolis police
MPR News
March 21, 2021
Earlier release, shortened supervision may soon be possible for some Minnesota prisoners
Post Bulletin
March 18, 2025
Star Tribune
February 14, 2025
Sahan Journal
January 9, 2025
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announces new initiative to expunge juvenile criminal records
Star Tribune
December 22, 2024
Pioneer Press
November 27, 2024
NPR All Things Considered
August 7, 2024
Tim Walz on Criminal Justice: 5 Things to Know
The Marshall Project
February 27, 2024
Who Decides Whether Restorative Justice Is Allowed to Become More Effective Than Incarceration?
Minnesota Women’s Press
November 16, 2023
Re-Imagining Justice Opening Keynote with Briana Payton on the Campaign for Pretrial Justice
Insight News
January 27, 2023
Tyre Nichols killing goes beyond race for community leaders across the Twin Cities
KARE 11
January 17, 2023
Violence prevention, bail reform among public safety priorities for Minnesota lawmakers
MinnPost
May 18, 2022
Minnesota Reformer
October 13, 2021
How to Break the Juvenile Detention Cycle: New Research Shows a Way
Education Week
August 25, 2020
Minnesota Spokesman Recorder
February 5, 2025
MPR News with Angela Davis
January 2, 2025
Public News Service
November 20, 2024
MinnPost
July 16, 2024
Should money decide who gets out of jail?
MPR News with Angela Davis
February 21, 2024
Moriarty, community partners talk ahead of expungement clinic
KSTP
April 15, 2023
Star Tribune
January 25, 2023
Promoting success, not punishing failure: Center will use grant to urge changes in community supervision
Minnesota Lawyer
November 15, 2022
Here's how to lend your voice to change policing in Minnesota
CBS News Minnesota
May 22, 2022
Star Tribune
April 22, 2022
Minnesota Reformer
June 10, 2020
Former Hennepin County Attorney Tom Johnson dies
Star Tribune