"Fugitive Safe Surrender"
on
airs: Sunday January 26 at 9:30 am and 7 pm
and Tuesday January 28 at 11:30pm
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| One of more than a dozen makeshift courtrooms in the Jersey City Armory, processing nearly 5,000 low-level fugitives |
This Week on Due Process
You may not have committed a major crime, maybe not a crime at all. It could be a ticket unpaid, a child support payment unmade, but it's enough to trigger a warrant for arrest - and that puts you on the wrong side of the law.
Tens of thousands in New Jersey can't get a license or a job, because warrants show up on a background check. They are always looking over their shoulders, knowing any contact with police could see them arrested or jailed.
But five times in recent years, the state has created a rare opportunity to clear a record and put a life back on track. It's called Fugitive Safe Surrender and when it came to Jersey City, Due Process was there for an inside look at a unique opportunity for thousands to come out of the shadows.
Back in the studio, we go deeper with Rev. William Howard of Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, with Lori Scott-Pickens of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, and with Assistant Attorney General Wanda Moore.
We hope you'll join us!
Sandy King and Raymond Brown
Tens of thousands in New Jersey can't get a license or a job, because warrants show up on a background check. They are always looking over their shoulders, knowing any contact with police could see them arrested or jailed.
But five times in recent years, the state has created a rare opportunity to clear a record and put a life back on track. It's called Fugitive Safe Surrender and when it came to Jersey City, Due Process was there for an inside look at a unique opportunity for thousands to come out of the shadows.
Back in the studio, we go deeper with Rev. William Howard of Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, with Lori Scott-Pickens of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, and with Assistant Attorney General Wanda Moore.
We hope you'll join us!
Sandy King and Raymond Brown
Due Process - winner of 22 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.
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