The Work of Friends of Justice: An Introduction

Introduction

Friends of Justice, the organization I lead, has been in existence for twenty-two years.  In that time, I have never attempted to compress the full scope of our work into one presentation. But I’m going to try it today.  Or, I will come as close to telling the complete story as is humanly possible.  I will be oversimplifying complex matters and leaving out a lot of important information.  I will confine myself to just four cases we have impacted.  This isn’t just about what happened in Tulia, Texas, Jena, Louisiana, or Winona Mississippi; the legal train wrecks I will be ...