Innocent and Imprisoned, Does the Criminal Justice System Really Work with Professor Justin Brooks

Todays’ Quantum Revolution podcast is a little different than
some of our previous episodes.  We usually focus on the
relationship between science and spirituality.


This season we have expanded our carefully curated group of
guests to include other kinds of Quantum Revolutionaries. 
From innovative social activists like Frank Schaeffer, to experts
leading the charge on criminal justice reform, like today’s
guest, Justin Brooks.


In this episode we’re going to look at the judicial system and
explore the question, what happens when you’re imprisoned for a
crime you didn’t commit - and is the penal system actually
fulfilling its purpose of rehabilitation and equitable
punishment?


When confronting outdated and discriminatory systems, it requires
creativity to find the solutions that work within the confines of
a dysfunctional system and eventually discovering the solutions
to transforming the system into something more equitable and
sustainable.  Today’s guest, Justin Brooks, is the
embodiment of this kind of disruptive and compassionate
creativity.


We can’t transform the criminal justice system if we’re not
taking a realistic look at what is actually happening.  If
the goal of the criminal justice system is to rehabilitate
people, we’re failing. 


What would a just judiciary system look like?  How could we
better rehabilitate people who commit crimes so that they can be
reintroduced back into society as healed individuals?  How
do we tackle racism in the current system?  These are the
questions we must be asking as a society.


We might not have the answer to these questions yet, but it’s
time we start imagining new possibilities.  And then taking
the incremental steps as they appear in front of us.


One step you can take today is to visit
californiainnocenceproject.org and make a donation.  Your
contribution is used to help innocent people get off death
row. 


Justin Brooks is the Director and Co-Founder of the
California Innocence Project. He has practiced
as a criminal defense attorney in Washington D.C., Michigan, and
Illinois. Over the course of his career he has served as counsel
on several high-profile criminal cases, including the Brian Banks
case which was the subject of an award winning movie,
Brian Banks, in 2018.


Since 1999, Professor Brooks has also worked extensively in Latin
America. He is the Founder and Director of California Western’s
Latin American Institute for Law and Justice, an organization
devoted to training law students and lawyers in Latin America and
improving justice systems. He is also the Founder and Director of
Red Inocente, an organization devoted to starting and supporting
innocence organizations throughout Latin America.


He has been recognized several times by the Los Angeles Daily
Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. In 2010 and
2012, California Lawyer
Magazine recognized him with the “Lawyer of the
Year” award.  


Justin has dedicated most of his professional - and personal -
life to overturning wrongful convictions.  His passion has
spurred him to create Innocence Projects all over the world and
to train young lawyers to work to help free innocent people and
transform the judicial system.


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