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The Wren Collective is a family-first organization that values action and risk-taking, research and evidence over instinct, and quality over egos. We are collaborative and we do not shy away from challenges or discomfort. We are unafraid to try new things and are willing to pivot away from entrenched, ineffective tactics to meet our North Star of building up healthy communities and ending our devastating reliance on incarceration.

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We currently do not have any open positions at this time.

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Gideon Turns 60: How the Cuyahoga County Jail Stifles the Right to Counsel

In “Gideon at Sixty: How the Cuyahoga County Jail Stifles the Right to Counsel,” Wren investigated the state of visitation at Cuyahoga County Jail. Wren recommends that the Cuyahoga County Jail…

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Trump’s Evergrowing Deportation Network

The Trump administration’s war on immigration and immigrants is escalating and expanding. Just this morning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, alleging that she…

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Creating the Conditions for Violence

To change things up, we are starting with good news. Over the last several months in Louisiana, Governor Jeff Landry spent significant political capital trying to ram through four constitutional…

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The Shrinking Frontier: Attacks on the First Amendment

There was nothing normal about Trump’s remarks at the Department of Justice a week ago. Not the venue–most other presidents before Trump have deliberately maintained a firewall between the agency…

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Courts Under Fire, Judges on the Line: Right-Wing Attacks on the Judiciary

Starting with President Trump’s reelection last fall, we have witnessed an alarming escalation in rhetoric and action against the judicial branch at both the federal and state levels. From the…

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State Sovereignty Under Siege

For decades, conservatives championed the idea that power should remain with states and local governments. But Trump’s latest actions tell a different story: one where the federal government overrides local…

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The Resurgence of the Death Penalty

As recently as last year, the death penalty was in serious decline in the United States. Federal and state executions were at an all time low and public support for…

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In A Democracy, Dissent Is Not Terrorism

In this newsletter, we explore how the Trump administration and state leaders are criminalizing dissent by weaponizing the DOJ, ICE, and other law enforcement tools at their disposal. We highlight…

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The President’s Plan to Lock Everyone Up

Normally, our newsletters explore how states function as laboratories for authoritarian forms of government and the federal government’s utilization of those ideas in its own power grab. Today, we take…

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