Interns’ and Volunteers’ Stories

Each week during our summer internship program, we ask our students to write a response to a prompt or question that allows them to reflect on their experiences – with clients, the criminal justice system, or the GJP staff. 

An Intern’s Reflection “What Surprised Me Most”

Looking back at my first week at the Georgia Justice Project, the most surprising thing is how the general population largely overlooks the problems of our criminal justice system. At times I have admittedly been guilty of the same thing. Over the nineteen years that I have called Atlanta my home I have come to [...]

Congrats to one of GJP’s Interns, Dominque Madison

Congratulations to one of GJP’s interns, Dominque Madison, for graduating from Charles Drew High School with  Honors this May.  Dominque has interned with GJP for the last past three summers while in High School and has joined the team again this summer before she goes to college to study Political Science.   Dominique is not [...]

An Intern’s Reflection “I Used to Think…Now I Know”

“I used to think that criminal activity was truly indicative of someone’s character. That somehow, the moments in which a person chose to harm someone else or break the law were an accurate reflection of that person’sentire character, even invalidating or undermining all the other moments of that person’s life in which they were responsible, honest, moral and [...]

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