iChange Justice Season 5

This episode first aired on Feb 3rd and we are rebroadcasting it today February 10th.  Is COVID to blame for the backed-up court cases? Or is it clogged administrative problems inside our system, or a problem with the Prosecutor’s or the Defender’s office? The jail has had steep reductions in occupancy load because of Covid rules being implemented, yet our direct reporting from people living...

Is COVID to blame for the backed-up court cases? Or is it clogged administrative problems inside our system, or a problem with the Prosecutor’s or the Defender’s office? The jail has had steep reductions in occupancy load because of Covid rules being implemented, yet our direct reporting from people living inside the jails and awaiting representation, or for court action, there are real gaps in co...

Community safety nets-what are they? Why do we need them? Chene’ shares her introduction to our organization and she states, “Direct and transparent communication is key”. Debbie explains her path that led to working with us and shares deeply personal stories of how her perspective shifted and enabled her to seek out collaboration with us. Irene speaks up about her journey and explicit examples of...

What does “public safety” mean? To elected officials, the words often mean buying or managing buildings - like jails. To people in bureaucracies it’s all about money…for it refers to the Public Safety department; so it's about budgets, police, and equipment. From childhood, we learn what safe or safety means from our protectors. So we have a bias and this bias pre-conditions how we see the world....

Is what we think happens within the criminal justice system ACTUALLY happening? As a community member, taxpayer, and contributing person, are our ideas of the justice system equal to the reality of how it works today? Our coalition has figured out there are BIG gaps. It's time to find out what they are and to make changes and course corrections to get a better return for the taxpayer's tru...

Paradigms, puzzles, and paradoxes. A minefield of confusion. Are the law and justice system working for or against the people’s safety, for or against the police? What is public safety anyway? How much does it cost us? Let’s talk about it. When things are not working, do we as individuals, as professionals, community members, and persons in positions of power have an obligation to speak up and cha...

What is the common good? How can we challenge our minds to see predicaments as opportunities to think differently about justice, rehabilitation, recovery, employment, jobs? Why can’t we put people to work rather than into jail? It requires understanding the old historical habits of thinking that gets certain results. To change the input could change the output. Working hands-on with people coming...

Stories, facts, and truth collide in the world of justice, jails, and prisons. How does it work? Local people talk about how an arrest changes reality. What we are told is filled with misinformation, misperceptions, and preconceptions. Real human beings are paying the price - as taxpayers, as employers, as a community. What’s the real cost - the real price we pay for the phrase, “Commit a crime, d...

What’s the word bullying mean to you? Does it mean something personal, or it is a news story? How does the word relate to justice? Has it changed in the past few years as we deal with police protests, violence in schools, racism, the riot at the nation’s capital? In this episode, we dig deeper into bullying as it applies inside the criminal, civil and legislative systems. Let’s talk about its effe...

iChange podcast-Why does it matter? Why on earth would we want to expose the ‘justice system’ inconsistencies? Why risk our individual freedoms and reputations? Why are we willing to step out and speak up about sensitive information which can ignite so many perceptions? What difference does it make if we do or don't speak up about the injustices with the system? There are many layers of the effect...

What is justice anyway? It depends on the eye of the beholder. Four people from the Restorative CommUnity Coalition with lived experience in the field talk about justice in America from their perspective. Series 1 of many to come, this show is all about dropping the veil on the criminal justice system. Over 800 years and the system has not budged on restoring anyone, in fact, quite the opposite. W...