Jones-Wright is a criminal defense and civil rights attorney and lives in Encanto.
As an attorney, activist and community leader, my criminal justice reform work has focused on issues related to mass incarceration, racial bias in policing and prosecution, and wrongful convictions. As the executive director of Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance (MoGo), I have worked closely with the California Innocence Project in its efforts to reform our criminal legal system. More intimately, as a volunteer attorney for the California Innocence Project, I have worked to help exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals. Its work is important to me and to our shared goal of making our criminal legal system more just and equitable.
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Much like my work with MoGo, the California Innocence Project’s work is cemented in the power of collaboration and community-led change. The California Innocence Project relies on partnerships with law schools, advocacy organizations and community groups to identify wrongful conviction cases and provide legal representation to those who have been wrongly convicted. It also engages in public education and advocacy to raise awareness about wrongful convictions and advocate for policies that can prevent them from occurring in the future.
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