Everyday Injustice podcast Archives

Everyday Injustice Special Edition: DA Candidate Daniel Chung Targets ‘Corruption and Injustice’ in Santa Clara County

By David GreenwaldMay 18, 20260 comments

A special edition of the Everyday Injustice podcast convened a discussion on wrongful convictions, prosecutorial misconduct, police accountability, and the future of criminal justice reform in California, featuring host David Greenwald, Ben Free Project founder Ben Frandsen, legal advocate Lydia Morgan, and Santa Clara County District Attorney candidate Daniel Chung. The dialogue centered on Chung’s campaign to unseat incumbent Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen and broader systemic failures within the criminal legal system.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 330: How Court Debt Entrenches Poverty and Punishment

By David GreenwaldMay 12, 20260 comments

Episode 330 of the Everyday Injustice podcast, featuring host David Greenwald and legal experts, examined the criminal legal system’s utilization of fines and fees as both a punitive measure and a revenue generation mechanism. The discussion highlighted how this system, particularly through fees for mandatory services, disproportionately burdens low-income communities and communities of color, thereby perpetuating cycles of poverty and instability.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 329: How Death Investigations Obscure Police Violence

By David GreenwaldMay 4, 20260 comments

UCLA professor Terrence Keel discusses his new book, The Coroner’s Silence, on the Everyday Injustice podcast, examining how death investigations in police custody cases can obscure the truth and highlighting the need for systemic reform.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 325: Civil Rights Activists Organized against Police Power

By David GreenwaldApril 6, 20260 comments

Historian Professor Josh Clark Davis discusses the organized resistance of civil rights activists against police violence and state repression, highlighting the role of local police departments and the strategies of resistance used during the civil rights era.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 323: Eric Morrison-Smith on Systems Change, Youth Justice, and Building Alternatives to Punishment

By David GreenwaldMarch 23, 20260 comments

In Episode 323 of the Everyday Injustice podcast, host David Greenwald interviews Eric Morrison-Smith, Executive Director of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, about the need for criminal justice reform, systemic inequality, and the importance of investing in life-affirming alternatives to punitive systems.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 321: Curtis Davis Jr. Case, Raising Questions about Plea Deals and Withheld Evidence

By David GreenwaldMarch 9, 20260 comments

Curtis Davis Jr.’s conviction is being questioned due to potential prosecutorial misconduct, plea bargaining, and withholding of exculpatory evidence, highlighting systemic issues in the criminal legal system.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 320: How Police Unions Built Political Influence

By David GreenwaldMarch 3, 20260 comments

Historian Stuart Schrader discusses the political rise of police unions and their growing influence in American public life on the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, hosted by David Greenwald.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 319: Finding Inner Freedom Behind Bars

By David GreenwaldFebruary 17, 20260 comments

Meditation has been shown to have a transformative effect on incarcerated individuals, helping them to manage anger, stress, and existential questions, and providing them with a sense of inner peace that can aid in successful reentry.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Special Episode -Women Beyond Walls

By David GreenwaldFebruary 9, 20260 comments

Pamela Winn, an Atlanta-based activist, shares her experience of being incarcerated while pregnant and subjected to brutal conditions, highlighting the need for dignity, care, and accountability in the carceral system.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 318: From Soldier to Storyteller

By David GreenwaldFebruary 2, 20261 comments

Jerry “JD” Mathis, an award-winning author and PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow, discusses his experiences with mass incarceration, reentry, and the redemptive power of storytelling on the Everyday Injustice podcast.

Podcast: A Long Road Back from the Brink: Andre Brown, Wrongful Convictions, and the Limits of Finality

By David GreenwaldJanuary 26, 20260 comments

Andre Brown had his conviction vacated in 2022, only to face the threat of being sent back to prison after the appellate court reversed that ruling nearly two years later, highlighting the systemic issues of the legal system and the importance of persistence in the fight for exoneration.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 315: Kate Chatfield on Public Defense, Felony Murder Reform, and the Limits of Incarceration

By David GreenwaldJanuary 12, 20260 comments

Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association, discusses the crisis in California’s public defense system, the need for increased funding, and the failure of increased incarceration to provide public safety.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 314: Hakeem McFarland on Purpose, Accountability, and Transformation

By David GreenwaldJanuary 5, 20260 comments

Hakeem McFarland, founder of the Choose Yourself Movement, emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for one’s own well-being through small, repeatable actions, and creating an “integrity loop” of accountability and support to disrupt cycles of self-neglect and avoidance.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 312: Confronting the Fastest-Growing Population in the Criminal Legal System

By David GreenwaldDecember 9, 20250 comments

Women are now the fastest-growing population in the criminal legal system, and the Women’s Justice Commission is working to reduce their involvement in the system and improve outcomes when they do enter it, through trauma-informed, gender-responsive approaches.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 308: California’s Public Defense Crisis Interview with the Wren Collective

By David GreenwaldNovember 11, 20250 comments

The Everyday Injustice Podcast discusses a new study revealing that California dramatically underfunds its public defense system, resulting in an imbalance of 77% more spent on prosecution than defense, and calls for a shift in narrative and investment in defense to create a more equitable justice system.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 307: Stories of Reentry and Resilience

By David GreenwaldNovember 3, 20250 comments

In a new episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald interviews three formerly incarcerated filmmakers about the emotional and systemic realities of life after prison, highlighting the barriers to successful reentry and the need for understanding and reform.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 304: The Serenity of Meditation in Prison

By David GreenwaldOctober 13, 20250 comments

Doreena Durbin, a former musician turned meditation teacher, has created a transformative prison meditation program in Texas that helps inmates find peace and self-understanding through breathing and mindfulness techniques.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 301: How Fines and Fees Punish Poverty and Destabilize Budgets

By David GreenwaldSeptember 22, 20250 comments

The Everyday Injustice podcast discusses the detrimental effects of court fines and fees, which create a “hidden tax” on low-income communities and destabilize government budgets, with experts from the Fines and Fees Justice Center calling for sustainable, equitable funding to replace the current system.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 297: Tony Viola Details Ordeal of Wrongful Conviction and Prosecutorial Abuse

By David GreenwaldAugust 18, 20250 comments

Tony Viola, a former Cleveland real estate professional, was wrongly accused and convicted of stealing $46 million in the nation’s largest mortgage fraud case, but was later exonerated after evidence of prosecutorial misconduct was revealed.

Normalization within the Carceral State: Daring Yale University to Utilize Its Awesome Leverage, Make Radical Commitments, and Address the Glaring Inequities It Contributes To

By Ghostwrite MikeFebruary 12, 20250 comments

From where I sit in California, countless ripples in the Yale lake of influences continue to wash…

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