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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 02/09/2026

Be sure to check out Emily's book the Price of Mercy and her new middle-grade book, Andromeda Diaz and the Reasonable Doubt, out later this month. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 02/09/2026

Who publishes two books in one year? Oh, just the amazing @galvinalmanza.bsky.social, executive director of @partnersforjustice.bsky.social. On this week's Just Justice podcast, I talk w Emily about her work, her books, and her recipe for Bolivian cheese bread. Listen where you get your podcasts!

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 03/08/2026

Heck, yeah! So excited to share that @womenwhopodcastmag.bsky.social featured the Just Justice podcast in a five-page article written by Nina Rodriguez, host of @griefandlight.bsky.social.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 10/06/2026

In the latest episode of Just Justice, I speak with Mujahideen Muhammad, MPS, co-founder of The Pillars of Promise, about his journey from 25 years in prison to researcher at Columbia University and advocate for justice reform. We discuss reentry, the Second Look Act, and book clubs, of course.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 27/05/2026

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 27/05/2026

A prosecutor can knowingly hide evidence, convict an innocent person, and never be sued for it. Iris Eytan wants to end that — and founded Protect Ethical Prosecutors to do it. My conversation with her is out now. Link in comments below. #CriminalJusticeReform #WrongfulConvictions

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 18/05/2026

1. Glossip is innocent. Always has been, always will be. OK needs to finally admit they were wrong and fully drop those charges. 2. The death penalty is wrong. And OK almost killed him. The risk of executing the innocent is another reason to abolish the death penalty. Glad to see Glossip home.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 18/05/2026

Richard Glossip, an innocent man who was almost executed three times by the State of Oklahoma, was released on bail while waiting for his retrial. There are two things wrong with that sentence. 1/2

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 06/05/2026

Good thing we can trust the press to document rising antisemitism.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 30/04/2026

This makes me very unhappy. I like my single bag of chips. And I'd like my mind to function.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 30/04/2026

I was a public defender. I know about fighting when the deck is stacked against you. When they gut the Voting Rights Act, it doesn't mean we quit. It means we fight harder.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 28/04/2026

I'm so glad Jesse Askew was finally released after his unjust sentence, that Burke lived to see it, that the GA district attorney did the right thing. Congrats to the Southern Center for Human Rights and Joshua Sharpe for his change-making coverage! Next up, a second chance law in Georgia.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 21/04/2026

I've put together a reading list "21 Books on Second Chances that Will Change How You See Justice" that I am sharing with my Substack readers (free with email sign-up, link in comments). Some are widely read, others less known, all worth your time. What would you add to the list?

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 21/04/2026

Happy reading! You can find the list here: jessicahenryjustice.substack.com/subscribe

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 21/04/2026

April is Second Chance Month, a time to think abt how we respond to harm, accountability, and the possibility of change. Some of the most powerful perspectives abt this come from people who have lived it. I’ve been especially shaped by books that center the voices of formerly incarcerated people.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 09/04/2026

I had a student who was failing my classes. She was struggling, personal challenges getting in the way of the classroom. But I also saw how much she needed someone to give her grace. I let her make up the semester. She is now a practicing lawyer. I look back on that one alot.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 09/04/2026

April is Second Chance Month. I write and podcast about second chances, but I want to hear yours. Who gave you one that changed everything? When did you give one? Or when do you wish you had? I'll go first in the comments.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 08/04/2026

Second Chance Month feels like a good time to mention that I host a podcast, Just Justice. I talk to people who survived the system and are doing amazing things that benefit us all. Have you listened yet? #SecondChanceMonth

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 06/04/2026

I served on NJ's Clemency Advisory Board. It was deliberate, careful, serious work. The opposite of what's happening federally. Every reckless pardon makes the next good governor more afraid to grant clemency to someone who deserves it. That's the real crime spree.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

April is Second Chance Month. And if we really support second chances for people who have been granted release from prison, we'd be funding crime prevention programs, improving conditions that lead to crime in the first place, and supporting people in their reentry efforts.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

Clemency is a far too infrequently used safety valve that can correct injustices that the criminal legal system cannot (or does not) fix. The current administration's pay-for-pardon/reward-its-supporters turns it all upside down in ways that have nothing to do with clemency's intended purposes. /end

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

April is Second Chance Month. When I see headlines like that NYT op-ed, I see red. Because I worry that the knee-jerk reaction by some will be to push for the abolition of clemency. Not push for proper procedures or scream for integrity in government. 6/7

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

I served on the New Jersey Clemency Advisory Board for Governor Murphy, which recommended second chances for people who had committed crimes but also who had done the work. It was a deliberative and careful process, and one that is entirely opposite what's playing out on the federal stage. 5/7

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

I fear that this will further dampen the will of good and honest governors and future presidents, who will refrain from using their clemency powers to avoid the backlash that any other politician would normally receive after issuing pardons to people who forseeably went on to commit new crimes. 4/7

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

But not our Tephlon Wanna-Be King. He pardons with impunity, without the careful, pain-staking analysis that typically goes into clemency decision making. And then the New York Times gets to trumpet about the "crime spree" of the people pardoned by this president. 3/7

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

It's an exaggerated fear: most people who are granted pardons do not ever have another criminal contact with the system. But it's a fear that dampens the effectiveness of the clemency power, as politicians paralyzed by the specter of being Hortoned do nothing. 2/7

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 04/04/2026

Those of you of a certain age will remember when MIchael Dukakis got "Willie Hortoned" by George Bush, causing thousands of people to be denied parole and making politicians reluctant to grant pardons to people who deserve them for fear that even one might commit a new offense after clemency. 🧵

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 03/04/2026

April is Second Chance month. But not in FL, TX, and OK, the 3 states responsible for the 7 executions that already have happened in 2026. Yet even as executions seem to be on the rise, public support for the death penalty is at an all time low. It's time to #endthedeathpenalty.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 03/04/2026

Prosecutes should not be in the business of hiding things from the public. Especially when it has to do with official misconduct. Police and prosecutorial misconduct, including hiding evidence, are often at the root of wrongful convictions.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 03/04/2026

It continues to astound me that peaceful protesters are the target of prosecutions. Prosecutors should know better and do better.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 03/04/2026

I love the music focus you've been bringing lately! People in prison are so much more than the worst thing they have ever done.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 03/04/2026

There are numerous examples of wrongful convictions where a person's "abnormal" or "atypical"reaction to crime (as defined by law enforcement or medical personnel el) have wrongly made them a suspect.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 02/04/2026

They are also the result of overzealous law enforcement that hyperfocuses on people in poor communities and communities of color. We need to do better. We need to focus on policies that promote healing and accountability, not policies of exclusion and punishment. #secondchancemonth

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 02/04/2026

April is Second Chance Month. 1 in 3 Americans have a criminal record, and they collectively face over 44,000 collateral consequences from those convictions. Barriers to housing, emmployment, benefits, etc. These convictions are not just the result of illegal behavior. 1/2

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 29/03/2026

I dissent from the grifting, the market manipulating, the chronic lying, the gaslighting, the diviseness, the demeaning language, pardons-for-sale, sex crimes, measles, a war without cause, a gaudy ballroom, all of it. I dissent.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 29/03/2026

Because I do. I dissent from the Supreme Court that doesn’t seem to know how to interpret the constitution properly. I dissent from Congress who seems to have forgotten that whole checks-and-balances thing. I dissent from a corrupt DOJ. I dissent from the “Department of War” (🤑). 2/3

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 29/03/2026

I deliberated for quite a while about what sign to make for No Kings. I tried to be creative and funny. I really did. But when I think about this administration, I don’t feel creative or funny. So I went with something that I’ve always admired as an attorney. The words “I dissent.” 1/3

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 26/03/2026

As @kylecbarry.bsky.social expertly explains: "the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today held that mandatory life without parole sentences for felony murder violate the state constitution." The rulings gives hundreds of people in PA prisons a sceond chance, who otherwise would die in prison.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 26/03/2026

Thank you for this excellent summary of the case. Far too many people are condemned to die in prison under felony murder statutes that do not examine individual culpability. This is an exciting legal development, and provides a second chance for hundreds of people in PA prisons.

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 26/03/2026

Shaken baby syndrome has now been prohibited in my home state of New Jersey because it lacks scientific validity. How many people have been wrongly convicted based on junk science?

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 25/03/2026

63 years after Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed the right to a lawyer, underresrouced public defender offices continue to struggle. I spent 10 yrs as a public defender and 20 yrs as a scholar, and say with certainty that this is not an anomaly. Gideon is a promise we keep breaking. #publicdefender

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jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com · 25/03/2026

Business as usual around far too many courtrooms in Louisiana.

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