This Week on Due Process - Good Samaritan

"Good Samaritan"  

airs: Sunday April 21 at 9:30 am and 7 pm

and Tuesday April 23 at 11:30 pm 

Does a drug overdose have to mean death? Bill proponents say no.

  

  

 

  

 

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The argument is that in an overdose crisis, fear of police and prosecution often keeps even good friends from getting help.

So the drug deaths continue to add up.  More than 700 each year in New Jersey alone. Some practitioners, even legislators from both sides of the aisle, say there's one simple way to get help when it's needed. Remove the fear of arrest!

On this edition of Due Process: the "Good Samaritan" bill: a way of encouraging friends, fellow users, even dealers, to call for life-saving help by shielding them from prosecution. A small price to pay, say supporters.  But the bill's been put in legislative limbo by conditional veto of the Governor.

From an opening mini doc, featuring a Middlesex County mother, whose son died from an overdose in a Rutgers dorm when his friends failed to immediately call for help, to a contentious debate in-studio, we explore both sides of a sensitive subject.

Studio guests: Bill Sponsor Sen. Joseph Vitale, Bill Opponent Assemblyman  Erik Peterson and, from the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Kevin Meara.

It's a Due Process program you won't want to miss!

Sandy and Ray

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on NJTV, successor to New Jersey Network, on the stations and cable positions once occupied by NJN.

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This Week on Due Process - Ban the Box

"Ban the Box"

  

airs: Sunday April 14 at 9:30 am and 7 pm

and Tuesday April 16 at 11:30 pm 

Any Arrest Can Put a Job Out of Reach

  

  

 

  

 

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You apply for a job, fill out an application and get to the critical question: "Have you ever been arrested or convicted of a crime." Most of us can simply say "no" and move on. But one in four Americans have to check that box. And, chances are, that's the end of that job.

It's a harsh reality that's triggered a movement to "ban the box" and erase that first barrier to employment. The fledgling bill is titled "The Opportunity to Compete Act." Reentry advocates say it's critical to slowing the revolving door of recidivism.

The opening field piece features bill sponsors Sen. Sandra Cunningham and Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, corporate leader Al Koeppe and two ex-offenders, who say their prison past blocks their way to a job.

In the studio with both sides of the issue: Cornell Brooks of the NJ Institute for Social Justice, Integrity House Founder Dave Kerr and Eric Degesero of the NJ Fuel Merchants and the NJ Independent Electrical Contractors.

See it all - and see what you think - this Sunday or Tuesday on NJTV.  Or catch this and all our programs, on demand, on our website, the NJTV website or on YouTube.

We hope you'll join us!

Sandy and Raymond

  

 

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on NJTV, successor to New Jersey Network, on the stations and cable positions once occupied by NJN.

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.       

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This Week on Due Process - McGreevey Redux

"McGreevey Redux"

  

airs: Sunday April 7 at 9:30 am and 7 pm

and Tuesday April 9 at 11:30 pm

Jim McGreevey with Ray Brown and Sandy King

  

  

 

  

 

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He says he's proof that there can be second chances, that even a disgraced governor can find a new, more authentic life - marked by faith and service.

 

On this edition of Due Process, a candid conversation with Jim McGreevey, no longer a politician - now a candidate for the Episcopal priesthood and a counselor to women in jail, now at peace with his own sexuality 

 

A new HBO documentary, "Fall to Grace," gives a glimpse of that new life.  But our talk with the former governor goes several steps further, probing the disconnect between McGreevey then and McGreevey now, not just in his personal life, but in his commitment to social justice.

 

It's a substantive interview we know you'll want to see.

Please join us!

Sandy and Raymond.

 

 

Due Process - winner of 21 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on NJTV, successor to New Jersey Network, on the stations and cable positions once occupied by NJN.

 

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.       

 

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