Albert Cobarrubias Justice Project

Proud to share this video profile on our amazing partners Mothers in Charge as they launched the first participatory defense hub in Philadelphia! They started in March 2018 and have already won i...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2018/10/03/video-profile-mothers-in-charge-launch-participatory-defense-hub-in-philly/

Another amazing group that recently joined our family is the youth organization Resilience Orange County. We went out to Orange County, CA in the Fall and met with a group of young organizers eag...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2018/01/04/welcoming-resilience-orange-county-to-the-participatory-defense-network/

We want to introduce one of the newest members of our family into the Network. With the support of the ACLU, De-Bug led a two-day participatory defense training with organizations involved in the...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2018/01/04/welcoming-riversides-starting-over-inc-in-to-the-participatory-defense-network/

In a storied movement home in Boston, we had the great honor of building with the sisters of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. A few of us from De-B...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2018/01/03/the-national-council-and-families-for-justice-as-healing-in-boston-join-the-participatory-defense-network/

Philadelphia has to be one of the most exciting cities in the country when it comes to community power challenging the daily operations of the courts. Philadelphia has elected a civil rights lawy...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2017/12/12/participatory-defense-launches-in-philadelphia/

Check out the new piece by Maura Ewing in The Atlantic “How Prisoners’ Families Can Assist Overworked Public Defenders”. The piece features the great work of the Montgomery County, PA Parti...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2017/07/10/the-atlantic-feature-on-participatory-defense/

As part of an effort to share Time Saved stories — how families and communities are using participatory defense to beat wrongful charges — we are sharing David’s story. David attended an an...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2017/06/22/time-saved-story-series-david-vs-trump/

Much gratitude to the participatory defense hubs who came to our first ever Social Biography Media Boot Camp (May 18th-22nd), where we taught organizations from 15 different cities on how to prod...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2017/06/06/photo-recap-national-social-biography-media-boot-camp/

Special thanks to Santa Clara County Public Defender Sajid Khan for speaking at our national Social Biography Media Boot Camp! It was an intensive five day training, where 15 different participat...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2017/05/23/protect-your-people-a-public-defenders-reflection-on-participatory-defense/

Much thanks to writer Katti Gray for this piece on the growth of participatory defense!  This article was originally published in The Crime Report, a criminal justice news service. Ramon Vasqu...

https://acjusticeproject.org/2017/03/30/cbs-news-the-growing-impact-of-participatory-defense/