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Construction of the Wayne County Criminal Justice Center, located off East Warren Avenue, is expected to be completed in 2022. “Living in Detroit has given me a deep understanding that fights ...
The Detroit Justice Center is shifting to a shared leadership model as founding Executive Director Amanda Alexander plans her departure. Alexander, 40, will leave the nonprofit law firm in May, ...
Detroit — The Detroit Justice Center along with Sugar Law Center and Schulz Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of community members against Detroit City Council's $8.5 million expansion of ...
At the Detroit Justice Center (DJC), which Alexander founded in 2017, lawyers work with community members to make freedom dreams a reality: a community land trust to protect neighborhoods from ...
In exchange for the city property where the criminal justice center may get built, the city gets ownership of the 1.4 million-square-foot American Motors Corp. building at 14250 Plymouth. The ...
So far, with the help of the Bail project, the Detroit Justice Center has been able to bail out about 25 people detained pretrial — 23 of which arrived at their court date.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - The new Wayne County Criminal Justice Center at 5301 Russell Street in Detroit was officially unveiled Tuesday. The center holds a new adult detention facility, juvenile ...
Why it matters: The city needs tens of thousands more affordable units to ease its housing crisis, the Detroit Justice Center found in a 2023 report.But construction costs are rising and subsidies ...
Last Saturday on Detroit’s near east side, groups of teens sat huddled around tables talking about the future of their city. They were discussing something that normally doesn’t include the ...
Lauren Thomas is a housing advocate with the Detroit Justice Center. She says from 2010-2016 homeowners were overtaxed by $600 million, impacting more than 100,000 households.
Donovan McCarty, a staff attorney with the Detroit Justice Center, said, typically, counties would keep surplus proceeds when foreclosed homes were auctioned.
Developing nonprofit community law center in Detroit attracts $600,000 grant from McGregor Fund Center will work to help remove legal barriers keeping low-income Detroiters from securing drivers ...