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New Orleans Saints defensive leader Demario Davis is featured in 'Racially Charged - America's Misdemeanor Problem,' a Brave New Films movie.

Published Apr 23, 2021 The Sisters of St. Francis Franciscan Peace Center will show the movie Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem via Zoom on Tuesday, May 27, at 6:30 p.m. The 30-minute film will be followed by a group discussion. America’s Misdemeanor Problem exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power.  13 million people a year – most of them poor and people of color – are abused by this system.  Through first-person accounts of those charged under the Black Codes of the Reconstruction e...

Several academics and advocates influential in criminal justice reform gathered Thursday for a conversation on the influence of misdemeanors on America’s criminal justice system — the topic of a new documentary premised on a Harvard Law School professor's book. Published in December 2018, HLS professor Alexandra Natapoff’s book, “Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal,” investigates the close relationship between misdemeanors and systemic injustices within the American criminal justice system. The...