by Marais Jacon-Duffy | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Written by OJPC volunteer Lily Meyer Ohio Senator Nickie Antonio, a Democrat representing the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, has introduced legislation that would ban the state’s death penalty every General Assembly since she was elected in 2011. This year, though,...
by Marais Jacon-Duffy | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog, Volunteers
Da’Wyna initially came to OJPC looking for help with sealing her record. She talks about how her younger self didn’t have a lot of knowledge regarding the law. If she was stopped by police, she didn’t know much about the criminal justice system and so when she was...
by Marais Jacon-Duffy | Jun 23, 2021 | Blog, Interns
By Caroline Miller, a summer legal intern at OJPC. I was thinking about going to law school after I earned my bachelor’s degree in marketing, but I decided to take a year off while I mulled it over and saved up for school. I took a job in food service management in...
by Marais Jacon-Duffy | Apr 8, 2021 | Blog, Death Penalty, News, Policy Reform
The Ohio Justice & Policy Center will release a series of reports to examine why it is time to end the death penalty in Ohio, and how we can repeal it this legislative session. These forthcoming death penalty reports are timely for several reasons: First, the...
by Marais Jacon-Duffy | Feb 18, 2021 | Death Penalty, News, Policy Reform
COLUMBUS, OH—State Senators Stephen Huffman (R-Tipp City) and Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood) announced a bipartisan death penalty repeal bill Thursday morning during a virtual press conference. The Senators were joined by several colleagues from both the House and...
