Everyday Injustice
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Davis Vanguard Podcast will be covering criminal justice reform, mass incarceration, wrongful convictions, and more.
Episodes
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 discuss…
- 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 firs…
- 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 Cha…
- 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 Io…
- 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 res…
- 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 structur…
- 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 i…
- 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 m…
- 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 pote…
- 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. Schr…
- 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…
- 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 r…
- 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 i…
- 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, devas…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 t…
- 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…
- 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.,…
- 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 D…
- 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…
- 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 p…
- 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 pr…
- 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 recidiv…
- 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 th…
- 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 a…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 se…
- 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 Injus…
- 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 indicte…
- 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 inc…
- 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 Proje…
- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 293: Beaten for Protesting
A Sacramento Lawsuit and the Fight for Police Accountability In the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with civil rights attorney Marissa Hatton of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Franci…
- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 292: The Sheriff, Constitution, and Rise of Right-Wing Populism
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with journalist and legal scholar Jessica Pishko about her acclaimed book The Highest Law in the Land, a deep dive into the growing political and institutional power of ele…
- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 291: Patrice Sulton - Inside D.C.’s Broken System
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Patrice Sulton, founder of the DC Justice Lab, attorney, professor, and nationally recognized criminal justice reform advocate. As the organization marks its fifth ann…
- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 290: “The Problem Isn’t the Prison — It’s That It Exists”
On this episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with distinguished Rutgers University professor Todd Clear, a leading scholar on mass incarceration and its social consequences. With a career spanning over five decades…
- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 289: Hidden Cruelties of Lethal Injection and the Death Penalty
This week on Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor and author of the compelling new book Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection. Lane's career took a dramatic tur…
- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 288 - Philip Jacobs on Race, Equity, and the Power of Play
This week on Everyday Injustice, we sat down with Philip Jacobs, the founder and CEO of Rebel Firm, a creative consultancy and production company tackling racial inequity through storytelling, entrepreneurship, and community engagement. Bo…
- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 287 –Maria Foscarinis on the Fight to End Homelessness
On this week’s episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald speaks with Maria Foscarinis, a former Wall Street lawyer who left corporate law in the 1980s to become one of the nation’s leading advocates for homeless rights. Foscarini…
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- Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 285: Emily Salisbury on Gender-Responsive Justice Reform
In this episode of Everyday Injustice, we sit down with Emily Salisbury, Director of the Utah Criminal Justice Center and associate professor in the University of Utah’s College of Social Work. Trained as a criminologist with a background…