In this week's episode of Stepping Toward Justice, Sarah A. Ford (@sarahafordesq) and Zeke Stephenson (@zekestephenson) discuss the sentencing of Alex Murdaugh for his financial crimes in federal court where he was sentenced to 40 years that will run concurrent to his double life sentence that he is serving in state court.

Also in this episode, we talked about Kim Mulkey and her PR stunt prior to the publishing of the Washington Post's article.

We finished the episode covering the home state South Carolina Gamecock Women's Basketball team! We have given a challenage to all of our listeners. We want Coach Dawn Staley to come on as a guest. Help us out and flood her X account (formally twitter) with requests to come on the show (@dawnstaley)!

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WE'RE BACK!!! In this new season of Stepping Toward Justice (@step2justice) Host Sarah A. Ford (@sarahafordesq) and Producer Zeke Stephenson (@zekestephenson) take a deep dive into last week's Victims Matter Rally that was hosted by SCVAN and SCADVASSA and took place on the front steps of the South Carolina State House. We chat about the Bowen Turner case being back in the news and where we’ve been these past few months.

We are grateful to the Luna Shark team for providing the video of the rally.

As we discussed in the episode, we are looking at a significant cut to the VOCA funds that many of us rely on to serve victims. We need to advocate that the legislature provides the SC Attorney General with additional funds so that victim services providers don’t face devastating cuts that will ultimately hurt victims.

Please click this link https://secure.madd.org/page/64675/action/1 and add your voice to ours. How often has a victim said to you, "I could not have done this without you?" If we lose our VOCA funding, many victims will have to walk their paths alone. We can't allow that.

This week, Sarah sits down with Ashley Lidow who is the Director of Policy and Government Relations with the Women's Rights Empowerment Network (WREN) for the state of South Carolina. Ashley helps lobby and bring about positive change from a policy standpoint for gender justice. Hear Ashley talk about the issues facing women and family in the state of South Carolina

Stepping Toward Justice with Sarah A. Ford is a podcast where we’ll explore what justice really looks like - inside of a courtroom, outside in our communities, and where access to justice is lacking. We’ll talk with advocates, survivors, and changemakers working to make justice a reality for us all. We can’t change what we don’t understand or acknowledge. So let’s take a step together toward justice. 

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