Friday, February 17, 2017

New on Thirteen and NJTV: Rape Exoneration: The Number Grows

"Rape Exoneration: The Number Grows"


Airs: Saturday, February 18 at 7am on:
AND
Sunday, February 19 at 9:30 am and 7pm
and Tuesday, February 21 at 11:30pm
Imprisoned for rape for 7 years, held in civil commitment for 10 years more as a sexual predator - but finally exonerated by DNA ... 17 years too late.

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This Week on Due Process 


Arrested for a crime? Surely with good reason.
Convicted and jailed? Most certainly guilty. 
At least, that's what most Americans once believed.

But the last 30 years have challenged those assumptions; forced us to acknowledge mistakes are made, innocent people imprisoned - and sometimes even freed - by the irrefutable evidence of DNA.The Innocence Project lists nearly 350 DNA exonerations.  Among them: Rodney Roberts of Newark.

On this two-part edition of "Due Process": the growing phenomenon of DNA rape exoneration - but only after an average 14 years in prison.

We tell Roberts' harrowing story, including his 10 years of forced post-prison civil commitment, then explore the need for meaningful reform with Rutgers Law Prof. Laura Cohen and John Jay Psychologist Dr. Matthew Johnson.

Next week, in Part II, we delve deeper into the abuses of civil commitment in New Jersey, which has put 2,000 men thought to be sexual predators into an extra-judicial lockup that may last their whole lives.

It's the kind of story you'll see only on "Due Process" - and only with the support of viewers like you.
 
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Sandy

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Monday, December 19, 2016

New on Thirteen and NJTV - Community Court: A Kinder, Gentler Way?

"Community Court: A Kinder, Gentler Way?"


airs: Saturday, December 17 at 7am on
AND
Sunday, December 18 at 9:30am and 7pm 

and Tuesday, December 20 at 11:30pm
   

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This Week on Due Process 


Imagine a judge who scolds as if she were your mother; offers help with your problems and applauds your success. 

She's Victoria Pratt, presiding in Newark's Community Court, sometimes called the "social work court."
 
It's part of what's called "procedural justice, " a new, more creative, more effective way of dealing with low level repeat offenders.
 
Here, there's help with addiction, with housing, with employment - for those who are ready to receive it.
 
A possible way out of crime, without the punishment; a new way of seeing the role of the court - with a whole new kind of judge.
 
Judge for yourself as Due Process goes inside Judge Pratt's courtroom, where human dramas play out every day.
 
In the studio, Judge Pratt and I are joined by Rutgers School of Criminal Justice Prof. Todd Clear, author of "The Punishment Imperative."
 
I hope you'll join us, too!
 
Sandy
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Friday, July 22, 2016

New on Thirteen and NJTV: From Harlem to Harvard

"From Harlem to Harvard"



airs: Saturday July 23 at 7am on:



AND

  
Sunday July 24 at 9:30am
and Tuesday July 26 at 11:30pm
Sandy King with Khalil Muhammad


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This Week on Due Process 


Khalil Gibran Muhammad, scholar, author and great-grandson of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad.  He earned his PhD at Rutgers, but his national reputation at New York'sSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
 
Now, after five years as president of the prestigious Schomburg, Muhammad - author of the prize-winning "Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America" - is returning to the academic life as a tenured professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
 
So, on this edition of "Due Process," we reprise my wide-ranging interview with Khalil.  Our talk runs the gamut from the historic criminalization of black men to the modern bias in urban policing, from the legacy of his great-grandfather to the need for ongoing reform.
 
If you missed it the first time around, you'll want to join me for this one.
 
Thanks for watching!

Sandy


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Friday, July 15, 2016

New on Thirteen and NJTV - Ebony and Ivy

"Ebony and Ivy"



airs: Saturday July 16 at 7am on:



AND

  
Sunday July 17 at 9:30am
and Tuesday July 19 at 11:30pm

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This Week on Due Process  


After a school year filled with black protest on campus, Princeton issued its decision: Woodrow Wilson's name would remain in its place of honor.
 
Although the students and their faculty supporters had documented the virulent anti-black, pro-Klan positions taken by Wilson as President of Princeton and, later, of the United States, the student demands have been largely rejected.
 
So what better time to welcome MIT Professor Craig Steven Wilder, author of "Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities," to "Due Process?"
 
Years of seminal research into the centuries-long links between slavery and the American Academy, links whose effects are felt still, led to his important, award-winning book.
 
On this edition of "Due Process," Wilder reveals the extent of academic complicity in this country's shameful past - placing the Princeton demands in historical perspective.
 
It's a "Due Process" you won't want to miss.
 
Please join me!
 
Sandy


Due Process receives important funding from The Fund for New Jersey and The PSEG Foundation, but we could not stay on the air without contributions from social justice advocates like you. Please Click Here to Donate.  

 
Due Process - winner of 25 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on WNET/Thirteen andNJTV.
 
Due Process is a presentation of Rutgers School of Law - Newark, The Division of Continuing Studies and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio. 
 
 
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