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Service Roads: Conversations on the Law and Social Justice

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Service Roads is a podcast focused on celebrating the practice of using the law for social change. Our guests include lawyers, judges, and advocates that have committed their careers to working for the people that need it most. As one of our guest's stated "there is a major difference between Law and Justice". We're trying to figure out what that difference is, and how lawyers can fix it.

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United States

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Service Roads is a podcast focused on celebrating the practice of using the law for social change. Our guests include lawyers, judges, and advocates that have committed their careers to working for the people that need it most. As one of our guest's stated "there is a major difference between Law and Justice". We're trying to figure out what that difference is, and how lawyers can fix it.

Language:

English


Episodes

Philadelphia's New District Attorney's Office - Larry Krasner

11/27/2018
Philadelphia's New District Attorney's Office - Larry Krasner by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:32:55

Reforming Family Courts - Judge Darlene Byrne

11/27/2018
Reforming Family Courts - Judge Darlene Byrne by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:48:28

Parole And Supervised Release In Washington D.C. - Vincent Haskell

8/31/2018
Parole And Supervised Release In Washington D.C. - Vincent Haskell by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:49:40

Grassroots Leadership & Life After Prison - Lewis Conway Jr.

6/28/2018
Grassroots Leadership & Life After Prison - Lewis Conway Jr. by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:59:49

Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write - Terri LeClercq

4/26/2018
Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write - Terri LeClercq by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:35:11

The Southern Center For Human Rights - Steve Bright (Speech)

3/30/2018
The Southern Center For Human Rights - Steve Bright (Speech) by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:57:59

The Southern Center for Human Rights - Steve Bright (Interview)

3/30/2018
The Southern Center for Human Rights - Steve Bright (Interview) by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:42:30

Gideon's Promise - Ilham Askia

3/30/2018
Gideon's Promise - Ilham Askia by Patrick Sellars, Logan Wexler & Eyad Saqr

Duration:00:29:55

Best of the First Year

2/10/2018
This is a collection of our favorite excerpts from the past year of Service Roads interviews. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Look for new episodes featuring Steve Bright, Ilham Askia, and Terri LeClerq coming soon.

Duration:00:51:45

Ending Wealth-Based Pretrial Detention - Alec Karakatsanis

11/11/2017
Alec Karakatsanis is a civil rights lawyer focused on ending the practice of human caging. Alec has been instrumental in suing county courts over their cash-bail practices that jailed people simply because they could not afford to pay their fines. Alec's lawsuits have had incredible success in Montgomery, Ferguson, and Houston. Due to his transformational work, Alec was awarded with Public Justice's 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year award.

Duration:00:42:31

How A Wrongful Conviction Led James King from the NFL to a Career in Public Defense - James King

11/11/2017
James King was a former college football star making his dream come true in the NFL. Suddenly, he was charged with a murder that he did not commit and his whole world turned upside down. In this episode, Mr. King described what he dealt with during this nightmare, and how having his dream ripped away led him to a career in public defense.

Duration:01:09:02

Orleans Public Defenders & The Juror Project - Will Snowden

11/11/2017
Will Snowden is the founder and director of "The Juror Project", an organization dedicated to changing discriminatory practices that remove people of color from jury panels. Through grassroots community organizing, the project aims to actually achieve for criminal defendants their constitutionally guaranteed right: a jury of their peers. Mr. Snowden also speaks about his work with the Orleans Public Defender, and how growing up in an incredibly segregated midwestern city guided his...

Duration:00:34:33

The ACLU Of Texas and SB4, Texas' Anti-Sanctuary City Law - Edgar Saldivar

11/11/2017
Edgar Saldivar is a staff attorney at ACLU of Texas. In this episode he talks about his transition from private practice, the litigation surrounding SB4, and the potential implications of the law.

Duration:00:46:23

Grace and Justice on Death Row - Brian Stolarz

10/18/2017
While an attorney at a big law firm, Brian Stolarz took a pro bono case for Alfred Brown. At the time, Mr. Brown was convicted of murder and sitting on death row in Texas. Upon meeting his client, Mr. Stolarz quickly realized he was innocent. In this episode, and in his book he tells the story of what it's like to go up against the "Texas Death Machine" in an effort to save Mr. Brown's life.

Duration:00:29:57

CAIR Coalition and Defending Immigrant Children - Nithya Nathan-Pineau

10/3/2017
Nithya Nathan-Pineau is the director of the Detained Children's Program at the Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Center (CAIR). The program provides legal services to children detained in the custody of Office of Refugee Resettlement. She took the time to speak with us about the many issues facing children that come to the United States due to unspeakable violence in their own countries.

Duration:00:29:42

"Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" - James Forman Jr.

10/3/2017
James Forman Jr. is a law professor at Yale, a former public defender, and co-founder of the Maya Angelou Academy. In episode 12, you will hear Mr. Forman's speech to the Public Defender Service in Washington D.C. in which he talked about what led him to write his book "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America". In episode 13, Mr. Forman graciously took part in an exclusive interview with Service Roads, where he provides incredible insight into the problem of mass...

Duration:00:43:22

James Forman Jr. - Speech

10/3/2017
James Forman Jr. is a law professor at Yale, a former public defender, and co-founder of the Maya Angelou Academy. In episode 12, you will hear Mr. Forman's speech to the Public Defender Service in Washington D.C. in which he talked about what led him to write his book "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America". In episode 13, Mr. Forman graciously took part in an exclusive interview with Service Roads, where he provides incredible insight into the problem of mass...

Duration:00:33:28

New Hampshire's Opioid Crisis - James Boffetti

7/15/2017
In this episode, we spoke with James Boffetti, the assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire, about his state's lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies manufacturing opioids. New Hampshire is in the midst of an incredibly large heroin epidemic, which has led Mr. Boffetti's office to bring charges against Purdue Pharma, one of the country's leading manufacturers of synthetic opioids.

Duration:00:20:44

Criminal Justice and Mental Health in Austin - Judge Sarah Eckhardt

7/8/2017
Sarah Eckhardt is the first female to hold the office of Travis County Judge. In this episode we talk to her about SB4, how the criminal justice system mishandles the problem of mental health, and what cities can do to make sure each individual that comes in contact with the criminal legal system is afforded equal protections.

Duration:00:32:44

Infinite Hope - The Story of Anthony Graves

6/4/2017
Anthony Graves was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 18 years on death row. In this episode, Mr. Graves shares his story along with his insights about how the criminal justice system - and the actors within it - needs to change in order to truly ensure that justice is served.

Duration:00:50:27