139: The Race and Class Dynamics Haunting the Connecticut Family Policing System w/Josh Michtom
Podcast: Public DefenselessPublished On: Tue Jul 25 2023
Description: Today's episode kicks off these weeks focus on the family welfare system aka the family policing system. Hunter sat down with Josh Michtom, a senior assistant public defender in Juvenile representation. Despite the title, Josh primarily represents parents as the state attempts to take their children away. As with so much of our criminal legal system, the contours of the family policing system in Connecticut cannot be understood without first understanding the many racial, class, and gender based biased baked into it. Guests: Josh Michtom, Senior Assistant Public Defender in Juvenile representation, Connecticut Resources: Josh's Article: A Call to Action for Parents' Lawyers in the Family Regulation System: Bearing Witness as Praxis and Practice in the Face of Structural Injustice https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/jlp/vol31/iss2/3/ McKeiver v Pennsylvania https://www.oyez.org/cases/1970/322 Follow Josh on Twitter https://twitter.com/RSGAT Contact Hunter Parnell: Publicdefenseless@gmail.com Instagram @PublicDefenselessPodcast Twitter @PDefenselessPod www.publicdefenseless.com Subscribe to the Patron www.patreon.com/PublicDefenselessPodcast Donate on PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5KW7WMJWEXTAJ Donate on Stripe https://donate.stripe.com/7sI01tb2v3dwaM8cMN
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