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Check out how our movement is showing up in the news and lifting the voices of those impacted by criminalization across Ohio.

2024

October 24: Signal Cleveland | Election Views From Behind Bars in Ohio: Divided Just Like the Rest of U.S.

October 9: Highland Press | Advocacy organizations hold event to assist Ohioans impacted by debt-related driver’s license suspensions; say legislation could provide relief

September 10: Signal Cleveland | ‘Your voice matters’: Voter education tour aims to register new voters in Cuyahoga County

August 22: The Marshall Project | Promises, Promises. Where’s the Surveillance Committee?

July 4: WBUR | It feels like democracy is challenged’: How an Ohio organizer empowers formerly incarcerated people

July 2: Ohio Capital Journal | Ohio redistricting reform group submits more than 731,000 signatures, sets sights on November

June 24: Ohio Capital Journal | Ohio bill would make it easier to seal non-violent criminal records, but advocates want it expanded

May 20: Signal Cleveland | ‘Not the Bullet, the Ballot’: Hundreds mobilize to remove barriers for Ohioans with criminal convictions

May 19: Truthout | Formerly Incarcerated People Face “Forever Punishment” in Collateral Sanctions

May 13: Signal Cleveland | Building an ‘On The Ground Railroad’: Group aims to remove barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated people

January 23: WBUR | Understanding his childhood trauma led this Cleveland man to heal humans and houses

January 17: WBUR | Grassroots Ohio group empowers people with felony records to participate in democracy by voting

January 16: Ideastream Public Media | Once a teenage mother, she now helps young Cleveland moms 'unleash the beast' of parenthood

January 9: Ideastream Public Media | This Cleveland activist uses his ‘abnormal, normal life’ to keep people out of prison

2023

November 14: Cleveland.com | How Cleveland’s 17 wards voted on the People’s Budget

November 12: Cincinnati Enquirer | Sending kids to adult prisons creating new generation of criminals

October 22: Cleveland.com | Issue 38 - putting schools and streets over stadiums: Fred Ward

June 5: The Marshall Project | Don’t ‘Punish Them More.’ Effort Grows to Ease Job Barriers After Prison Release

2022

October 13: The Land | Former teen mom Linda Howard mothers young mothers, builds political power

May 22: Statehouse News Bureau | Advocacy group gives new voice to formerly incarcerated people in Ohio

January 27: The Marshall Project | Who’s Electing Judges in the Cleveland Area? Not Those Ensnared in the System

2021

January 27: The Guardian | Ohio nearly purged 10,000 voters who ended up casting 2020 ballots

January 18: Columbus Dispatch | Column: A demand for democracy and accountability

2020

December 15: How Ohio’s Racial Justice Movement Won Big At The Ballot Box

December 9: Cleveland.com, Opinion | Heal Our Communities. Pass Sensible Drug Reform Now: Robin Turner

November 2: Truthout | Instead of Chasing “Swing Voters,” Ohio Organizers Push to Expand Electorate

September 17: Fox 19 NOW | Community members protest for Cincinnati Police shooting range to be moved

September 17: The Nation | The US Safety Net Is Degrading by Design

July 2: WOSU | Ohio Advocates Call For Unemployment Compensation System Reforms

July 1: The Guardian | Could Daytons’ Black Voters Turn Ohio Blue?

May 13: The New York Times Opinion | Michelle Alexander: Let Our People Go

April 24: ABC6 | Group calls for Governor DeWine to release 20,000 prisoners in May to slow COVID-19 spread

April 24: Columbus Dispatch | Coronavirus: Caravan of families carry concerns about inmates to Columbus

April 23: Bloomberg Government | Driving Around Gains Popularity As Virus-Era Protest Vehicle

April 15: Loveland Magazine | Civil Rights Groups: Vote By Mail Improvements Needed For Ohioans

March 18: Mahoning Matters | Mutual aid: Valley residents can care for each other

February 21: City Beat | Candidate Forum for County Offices Sets Focus on Justice System Reforms

2019

May 24: National Review | This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism

March 3: East Liverpool Review | KSU Professor Selected for National Leadership Program

February 20: The Advertiser-Tribune | Brown Pushes to Expand Scale and Scope of Earned Income Tax Credit

February 20: Xavier Newswire | Alternative Breaks Panel Talks Faith and Justice

February 19: Cleveland.com | Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor calls for criminal justice reform measures

February 13: Cleveland.com | Attacks on Women’s Freedoms in Ohio and Nationally Take Us Backwards in Ways Incompatible With Lives of Faith: Joan VanBecelaere and Marcia Dinkins

February 12: ideastream | After Cuyahoga Jail Report, Where Do Bail Reform Talks Stand?

January 27: The Columbus Dispatch | Clergy Support Columbus Officers’ Civil-Rights Concerns, Other Issues

January 27: Record-Courier | Local Award Winners Named by NASW

January 8: ideastream | Demonstrators Protest Cuyahoga County Jail Conditions

January 8: ABC News 5 Cleveland | Protesters Call for Change, Issue Demands Amid County Jail Controversy

2018

December 10: Cleveland Plain Dealer | Protest Over ‘Inhumane’ Conditions at Cuyahoga County Jail Planned Ahead of Tuesday Council Meeting

December 3: 90.5 WESA | One Of Town's Saga Of Few Jobs, Chronic Pollution And The Coming Chemical Boom

November 5: Dayton Daily News | Ohio Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Issue 1, Which Would Decriminalize Low-level Drug Offenders

October 22: The Enquirer | Gap Between the Super-rich, Everyone Else Is Widening

January 14: KentWired | Ohio Organizing Collaborative Proposes New Ballot Initiative

January 14: Columbus Dispatch | Martin Luther King’s Legacy Inspires Today’s Activism

2017

December 10: New York Times | Under Trump, E.P.A. Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters

November 9: Columbus Dispatch | Ginther Says New Programs Would Replace Controversial Safety Initiative

September 21: WKBN | Study Links High Manganese Levels in East Liverpool with IQ Scores

September 19: Columbus Dispatch | Protesters Take Over Columbus Council Meeting for Nearly 2 Hours

July 23: WLWT | Hundreds Gather for Sam DuBose Rally in Downtown Cincinnati

July 17: Columbus Dispatch | Collaborative Helps Organize Community and Social Policy Activists

July 12: Cleveland Plain Dealer | Cleveland Mother Worried What Medicaid Changes Will Mean for Her Diabetic Daughter

July 8: WLWT | March for Sam Blocks Streets, Businesses in Over the Rhine

July 8: WKBN | Health Care Protester: ‘I’m scared...it’s going to kill a lot of people’

July 7: Toledo Blade | Local Faith Leaders Cite Seniors, Poor, Ask Portman Not to Budge

June 21: Cleveland Plain Dealer | Ohioans Protest Healthcare Bill with Sit-in at Sen. Rob Portman’s Washington Office

January 18: Cincinnati CityBeat | Faith Communities Join Sanctuary Movement in Cincinnati