The gray area of criminal justice | On the record w/ Signal Cleveland

Signal Cleveland’s Criminal Justice and Community Safety Reporter Stephanie Casanova goes on the record to talk about her community-first style of criminal justice reporting.

Casanova explains how traditional news media tends to cover crime and safety stories — ”parachuting” in, reporting the immediate news, and then leaving the community quickly…which can leavereaders and viewers with a distorted view of a community.

This type of reporting can be harmful because it doesn’t account for the gray area of criminal justice, Casanova said. This gray area can be a person’s background, their ability to change, or even the ways the criminal justice system in the United States has failed them. Casanova hopes to focus her reporting on that gray area to humanize incarcerated folks, victims, families and entire communities.

Check out her work!

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