Excellence. The university has also named a scholarship after her, the Professor Cynthia E. Jones Scholarship, which is awarded to an aspiring public defender. In addition to her work as a professor, Jones is president of the board of directors of The Sentencing Project. She also sits on the board of the Civil Rights Corps. Publications Books Henning, Taslitz, Paris, Jones, Podgor, Mastering Criminal Procedure I — The Investigative Stage, Carolina Academic Press (2nd edition 2014) Henning, Taslitz, Paris, Jones, Podgor, Mastering Criminal Procedure II — The Adjudicatory Stage, Carolina Academic Press (2nd edition 2014) Podgor, Henning, Garcia, and Jones, Criminal Law, Concepts and Practice (4th edition) Carolina Academic Press (2017) Articles "Evidence Destroyed, Innocence Lost: The Duty to Preserve Evidence Under Innocence Protection Statutes", 42 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1292 (2005) "The Right Remedy for the Wrongly Convicted: Judicial Sanctions for the Destruction of DNA Evidence", 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2893 (2009) "A Reason to Doubt: The Suppression of Evidence and the Inference of Innocence", 100 J. Crim. L & Criminology 415 (2010) "Confronting Race in the Criminal Justice System: The ABA Racial Justice Improvement Project", 27 Criminal Justice 12 (2012) "Give Us Free": Addressing Racial Disparities in Bail Determinations", 16 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 919 (2013) "I AM Ronald Cotton": Teaching Wrongful Convictions in a Criminal Law Class", 10 Ohio State J. Crim. L. 607 (2013) "The Biological Evidence Preservation Handbook: Best Practices for Evidence Handlers", National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technical Working Group (April 2013) "Disproportionate Pretrial Detention of Blacks and Latinos Drives Mass Incarceration" (co-author Nancy Gist), Huffington Post (2015) "Here Comes the Judge: A Model for Judicial Oversight and Regulation of the Brady Disclosure Duty", 46 Hofstra L. Rev 87 (2017) "Accused and Unconvicted: Fleeing from Wealth-Based Pretrial Detention", 82 Alb. L. Rev. 1063 (2019) Filmography 2010: Fighting Evidence with Evidence (writer and producer) 2016: BAIL in America: The Color of Pretrial Detention (executive producer) References External links Washington College of Law biography American legal scholars African-American lawyers Washington College of Law faculty Washington College of Law alumni University of Delaware alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Public defenders