Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

It’s an ugly truth: our criminal legal system sends innocent people to prison. We talk to Lisa Kavanaugh, Director of th... Read more

Emily Baxter is the founder of We Are All Criminals. In this episode, we examine the ways in which privilege serves to d... Read more

Jonathan Rapping is the founder of Gideon's Promise, an organization dedicated to changing the culture of public defense... Read more

Restorative justice is a paradigm-shifting approach to criminal justice. Fania Davis is a long-time social justice activ... Read more

Alexandra Natapoff talks about her new book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Inno... Read more

This week we talk to Anand Swaminathan, an attorney at Loevy and Loevy—a national firm that does civil rights work adjac... Read more

Beth McCann, the newly elected District Attorney of Denver talks to us about her work, what it means to be a progressive... Read more

Debtors prisons were banned in the US in the 1830's. But almost two centuries later, the criminal legal system is still ... Read more

Brandon Garrett discusses the precipitous decline in death penalty sentences and executions and his new book, End of its... Read more

Nila Bala & Jesse Kelley of the R Street Institute help us understand the juvenile justice system and talk about the... Read more

Trials are supposed to be a fundamental constitutional right. But in today’s criminal legal system, only 3% of federal c... Read more

383,000 young people were placed on formal or informal probation supervision in 2014. Stephen Bishop, of the Annie E Cas... Read more

Have you ever thought about what it means to make money off of caging other people? You should. Vanguard owns 19% of Cor... Read more

Women are the fastest growing population in US prisons and jails. At the same time, drug courts are proliferating and ne... Read more

Pastor Donna Hubbard works with women who have been trafficked at her organization, the Women at the Well Transition Cen... Read more

Prison officials regularly block access to huge amounts of reading material for incarcerated people—and they do it in tr... Read more

In this episode, we look again at the collateral consequences of involvement with the criminal legal system. "Crimmigrat... Read more

Holistic defenders in the Bronx saved their clients 1.1 million days of incarceration and saved taxpayers $165 million o... Read more

We reached out to all the criminal law professors at HLS and asked what student scholarship had really wowed them in the... Read more

Rahsaan Hall is the Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’s What A Difference a DA Makes Campaign. We discuss progressiv... Read more