“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 gentrification and offer a safe haven for men returning from incarceration; urban gardens that provide neighbors a space for connection and nourish bodies in the midst of a food desert; a bail fund to keep Detroiters from languishing in jail for the crime of being too poor to make bond. And, most urgently: imagining safe communities without jails and prisons.“

Detroit Free Press

October 21, 2019