April 2, 2021 — Duke Law Professor and Wilson Center Director Brandon Garrett’s new book, Autopsy of a Crime Lab, Exposing the Flaws in Forensics, is the first to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. This video documents […]
Year: 2021
A Blueprint for Bail Reform
March 29, 2021 — Duke Law professor and Wilson Center Director Brandon Garrett and Sandra Guerra Thompson, professor of law and director of the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, discuss their work as independent monitors for a landmark bail reform settlement in Texas. This settlement could become a national model […]
Community Re-entry for the Formerly Incarcerated
March 15, 2021 — Formerly incarcerated individuals face many barriers when re-entering their communities. Learn more about those barriers and the programs successfully addressing them, and hear from formerly incarcerated individuals who have experienced trying to re-enter society. The roundtable for this event includes Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate and former federal […]
Novel Justice | Evaluating Police Uses of Force by Seth Stoughton
March 2, 2021 — Seth W. Stoughton is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and an Associate Professor (Affiliate) in the university’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His book, Evaluating Police Uses of Force, explores a critical but largely overlooked facet of the difficult and controversial issues of […]
Six Trials and 23 Years: Curtis Flowers Talks Justice with the Wilson Center
February 24, 2021 — Curtis Flowers is a Mississippi man who was tried six times for the same crime and whose case was the subject of Season 2 of the APM Reports podcast “In the Dark”. He spent nearly 23 years behind bars and endured six trials and four death sentences for four murders he […]
Alternatives to Police Response to Behavioral Crises
February 24, 2021 — Police have become the de facto first responders to behavioral health crises despite rarely receiving adequate training to safely and effectively handle the situation. The consequences of this are reflected in the disproportionate number of people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders killed by police every year and held in […]
Ben Finholt Describes the Just Sentencing Project to the Wilson Center for Science and Justice
February 19, 2021 — Ben Finholt, Director, Just Sentencing Project with NC Prisoner Legal Services, summarizes the organization’s mission and work to the Wilson Center. He spoke with students working with the Wilson Center during Spring 2021.