S4E5: Justice Starts Before the Courtroom: Attorney Courtney Teasley on Legal Literacy

July 07, 2026 2:00am 47 min

After more than a decade as a criminal defense attorney, Courtney Teasley saw the same problem over and over again: too many people entered the criminal legal system without a practical understanding of their rights or t...

S4E4: Criminalized Survival: Justine van der Leun on Abuse, Imprisonment, and Unreasonable Women

June 23, 2026 2:00am 46 min

What happens when a woman’s survival is treated as a crime? In this episode of Just Justice, Jessica Henry speaks with award-winning journalist Justine van der Leun about her new book, Unreasonable Women: Three Stories o...

S4E3: From Sing Sing to Columbia University: Prison Education, the Second Look Act, and Prison Conditions

June 09, 2026 2:00am 50 min

After nearly 25 years in New York prisons, Mujahideen Muhammad, MPS came home in 2024 and went straight to work on criminal justice reform. In this episode of Just Justice, he talks with host Jessica Henry about the New ...

S4E2: Iris Eytan on Prosecutorial Misconduct, Wrongful Convictions, and Immunity

May 26, 2026 2:00am 44 min

In this episode of Just Justice, Jessica Henry sits down with Iris Eytan, founder of Protect Ethical Prosecutors (PEP), to examine prosecutorial misconduct and why it so rarely leads to consequences. Prosecutors hold mor...

S4E1: A Beautiful Pain: Accountability and Transformation with Damon "Sharuka" Venable

May 12, 2026 2:00am 50 min

On this episode of Just Justice, Damon "Sharuka" Venable, Community Affairs and Policy Specialist with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, shares his journey from a Newark childhood marked by poverty and street...

Second Chance Month: A Time to Look Back

March 31, 2026 2:00am 3 min

S3E13: Farming for Justice, with Charles Rosen

March 17, 2026 2:00am 53 min

In this episode of Just Justice, Jessica Henry speaks with Charles Rosen, founder of Ironbound Farm, about an unusual approach to justice: combining regenerative farming with second-chance employment. Charles shares what...

S3E12: Breaking Good, with author Nikki Mammano

March 03, 2026 2:00am 43 min

Nikki Mammano is the author of Breaking Good, a fast-paced memoir that traces her journey from suburban New Jersey to the drug underworld of Waikiki and back again, through addiction, arrest, prison, and ultimately recov...

S3E11: Death by Incarceration: Felix Rosado on Life Sentences and Restorative Justice

February 03, 2026 8:35pm 49 min

S3E11: Death by Incarceration: Felix Rosado on Life Sentences and Restorative Justice Sentenced to life without parole at 18, Felix Rosado spent nearly 27 years in prison before his sentence was commuted. In this episode...

S3E11: Death by Incarceration: Felix Rosado on Life Sentences and Restorative Justice

February 03, 2026 2:00am 49 min

Sentenced to life without parole at 18, Felix Rosado spent nearly 27 years in prison before his sentence was commuted. In this episode of Just Justice, Felix reflects on the moment he realized what a life sentence truly ...

S3E10: Sentenced to Life Without Parole as a Child, with April Barber-Scales

January 20, 2026 2:00am 37 min

In this episode of Just Justice, host Jessica Henry speaks with April Barber-Scales, who was sentenced to life without parole in 1991 as a frightened, pregnant teenager.  After more than thirty years in prison, April rec...

S3E9: Writing His Way Out: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on Abolition and Imagination

January 06, 2026 2:00am 46 min

In this powerful episode of Just Justice, writer, organizer, and abolitionist Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author of Ghosts in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, draws on more ...

Happy Holidays from Just Justice

December 23, 2025 2:00am 5 min

S3E8: "You Don't Have to Be Prison," with Dr. Daphne Brydon

December 09, 2025 2:00am 47 min

Dr. Daphne Bryden joins this episode of Just Justice to explore trauma, transformation, and life after long-term incarceration. Drawing on over two decades of clinical and research experience, Dr. Brydon examines how peo...

S3E7: Ending State Killing, with Abe Bonowitz from Death Penalty Action

November 25, 2025 2:00am 50 min

In this episode of Just Justice, host Jessica Henry sits down with Abe Bonowitz, co-founder and executive director of Death Penalty Action and one of the most persistent voices in the movement to end capital punishment i...

S3EP6: Where Hope Lives: Jennifer Soble and the Illinois Prison Project

November 11, 2025 2:00am 44 min

Jennifer Soble, founder and Executive Director of the Illinois Prison Project, is re-imagining justice around a simple but radical belief: people can change. In this episode of Just Justice, Jennifer and host Jessica Hen...

S3EP5: Meet David Carrillo, the First Incarcerated College Professor in the United States

October 28, 2025 2:00am 42 min

David Carrillo was serving a life without parole sentence when he realized he needed to radically change his thinking, and the way he was living behind bars. From a prison cell, he began a journey of education, reflectio...

S3EP4: Sixteen Years in Prison For A Crime He Didn't Commit: Attorney and Exoneree Jeffrey Deskovic on Justice and Redemption

October 14, 2025 2:00am 42 min

At just 17, Jeffrey Deskovic was coerced into a false confession and wrongly convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, despite DNA evidence that proved his innocence. After 16 years behind bars, he was finally exonerated. ...

S3EP3: The Cost of Integrity, with former U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer

September 30, 2025 2:00am 35 min

When former U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer refused to recommend a pardon for actor Mel Gibson, the Trump administration fired her just three hours later. Now, Liz is telling her story. Liz has become a leading voice for j...

S3EP2: Aliza Kaplan: Second Chance Lawyering

September 16, 2025 2:00am 48 min

Law professor Aliza Kaplan joins Just Justice to share the human side of “second-chance lawyering." Aliza details the chllanging legal work that happens after a conviction, where post-conviction advocacy, parole, clemenc...