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YouTube Video: "Community-powered criminal justice reform | Raj Jayadev".
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 results of their work -- including more than 4,000 years of "time saved" from incarceration -- and shows how this new model could shift the landscape of power in the courts.
Although this is a US initiative, we in Canada have similar issues - low income people, people of colour, indigenous people have frequently experienced similar issues (disproportionate number of indigenous and people of colour individuals in prison, unsolved murders of indigenous women...).