TED Talks
TED: 4 steps to hiring fairly -- and supporting criminal justice reform | Nyra Jordan
Many companies have made strides when it comes to prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), but one group remains largely left out: people who have been involved in the criminal justice system. Social impact investor Nyra...
TED Talks
TED: How bad data traps people in the US justice system | Clementine Jacoby
Right now, hundreds of thousands of people are "stuck" in the US criminal justice system. They've completed all of their requirements for release, but nobody knows it because the system is run on old databases that don't talk to each...
TED Talks
TED: The legacy of racial injustice in the US criminal legal system | Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers
In an engaging, insightful conversation, criminal justice reformer Nick Turner breaks down the ways the US criminal legal system perpetuates centuries-old racial and economic inequality. He joins TED current affairs curator Whitney...
TED Talks
TED: A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system | Adam Foss
When a kid commits a crime, the uS justice system has a choice: prosecute to the full extent of the law, or take a step back and ask if saddling young people with criminal records is the right thing to do every time. In this searching...
Curated Video
How Our Criminal Justice System Is Almost Entirely Negotiated Behind Closed Doors | Think | NBC News
There is an ideal of the American criminal justice system where defense attorneys and prosecutors are equal, with a neutral judge and jury presiding over everything. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff joined THINK to discuss why the actual...
The Atlantic
Is the Criminal Justice System Broken?
At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of senators, police commissioners, professors, activists, and authors to comment on the state of law enforcement in America. "This land of the free...now incarcerates more human...
Curated Video
How a Tofino, B.C., First Nation is Indigenizing the criminal justice system
The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation in Tofino, B.C., has relocated a provincial courthouse to its territory and inside a building that used to be the gymnasium of a former residential school. As Yasmine Ghania reports, the nation is...
The Guardian
British veterans in the criminal justice system
Some 20,000 British military veterans - more than twice the number currently serving in Afghanistan - are in the criminal justice system. 'John' suffers from alcohol addiction and was jailed for four-and-a-half years a year after leaving...
Wonderscape
Understanding Systemic Racism: Its Roots and Impact
This video delves into the concept of systemic racism, exploring its historical foundations and present-day implications in the United States. It explains the distinction between individual and institutional racism, highlighting how...
TED Talks
Jarrell Daniels: What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other
A few weeks before his release from prison, Jarrell Daniels took a class where incarcerated men learned alongside prosecutors. By simply sitting together and talking, they uncovered surprising truths about the criminal justice system and...
TED Talks
Raj Jayadev: Community-powered criminal justice reform
Community organizer Raj Jayadev wants to transform the US court system through "participatory defense" -- a growing movement that empowers families and community members to impact their loved ones' court cases. He shares the remarkable...
Curated Video
Cory Booker: US criminal justice is creating a "caste system"
Sen. Cory Booker (D–NJ) sat down with Vox's German Lopez to discuss racial disparities in America's criminal justice system. See the full interview here: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8205027/cory-booker-drug-war Subscribe to our channel!...
Curated Video
The racism of the US justice system in 10 charts
Michael Brown's shooting offers yet another reminder that the US criminal justice system is riddled with racial disparities. Read the latest updates on Ferguson: http://www.vox.com/michael-brown-shooting-ferguson-mo Read a backgrounder...
Curated Video
Data shows majority of criminal charges laid in Ontario don’t make it to trial
More than half of the criminal charges laid by police in Ontario never make it to trial, according to data from Statistics Canada. As CBC’s Sarah MacMillan reports, the numbers paint a troubling picture of the province’s justice system.
TED Talks
Kim Gorgens: The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime
Here's a shocking statistic: 50 to 80 percent of people in the criminal justice system in the US have had a traumatic brain injury. In the general public, that number is less than five percent. Neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens shares her...
TED Talks
Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime
When she became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, Anne Milgram quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their...
TED Talks
TED: How radical hospitality can change the lives of the formerly incarcerated | Reuben Jonathan Miller
For the nearly 20 million Americans with a felony record, punishment doesn't end after their prison sentence. Sociologist Reuben Jonathan Miller sheds light on the aftershocks of mass incarceration through the stories of people who've...
TED Talks
TED: Redemption Song | John Legend
John Legend is on a mission to transform America's criminal justice system. Through his Free America campaign, he's encouraging rehabilitation and healing in our prisons, jails and detention centers -- and giving hope to those who want...
Wonderscape
Challenges of the American Dream for Black Men in the U.S.
Examine the disparities faced by Black men in America in pursuit of the American Dream. Learn about the impact of public policies, particularly within the criminal justice system, and how these have contributed to inequalities. Explore...
TED Talks
TED: Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform | Marlon Peterson
For a crime he committed in his early twenties, the courts sentenced Marlon Peterson to 10 years in prison -- and, as he says, a lifetime of irrelevance. While behind bars, Peterson found redemption through a penpal mentorship program...
Curated Video
Trial Process
New ReviewA video entitled "Trial Process" that discusses the U.S. criminal justice system and its three stages.
Wonderscape
Racial Inequality in America: A Historical and Present-Day Analysis
This video examines the history and current state of racial inequality in the U.S., focusing on the experiences of Black Americans. It covers the impact of historic practices like slavery, Jim Crow laws, and redlining on wealth,...
Barcroft Media
I Found My Father’s Killer | CHASING JUSTICE
A WOMAN whose life was torn apart by the killing of her father as a child says she finally feels peace after helping to bring the perpetrator to justice. Joselyn Martinez was just nine on November 22 1986 when her father was shot outside...
Crash Course
Crime: Crash Course Sociology
We’ve talked about deviance more broadly, but today we’re focusing on crime, specifically in the US. We’ll start with legal definitions of crime and use FBI data to get an idea of the amount and kinds of crime committed in the US. We’ll...