Rory Fleming

    Rory is the founding attorney of Fleming Law LLC, an immigration law boutique in Philadelphia. He has worked for a variety of criminal justice and harm reduction nonprofits, including Law Enforcement Action Partnership and Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project, and provided campaign services for over a dozen district attorney campaigns. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic, Slate and many other outlets.

    Pittsburgh Bucks National Trend by Backing Reform Prosecutor in Primary

    Many of the “progressive prosecutors,” as they are popularly known, who began winning elections ...

    EU Moves Toward Banning Algorithmic Policing and Sentencing 

    In the United States, many top criminal-legal system operatives and thought leaders worship at ...

    Will CA Supreme Court Force DA Gascón to Use “Three Strikes” Law?

    Of all the reformist prosecutors elected since 2015, almost none have been pummeled quite ...

    Reform Funder Under Fire for Hiring Naloxone “Moral Hazard” Researcher

    Arnold Ventures is one of the very few big philanthropy funds that support criminal ...

    PA Gov. Shapiro Wants to Ban the Death Penalty. He Mustn’t Stop There.

    When Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) announced on February 16 that he would extend ...

    Public Defenders Aren’t Principally About “Public Safety,” and That’s Ok

    The notion that public defenders, constitutionally-mandated criminal defense lawyers, are part of the “public ...

    Prosecutor Reform Will Largely Play Defense on Election Night

    The so-called progressive prosecutor movement started around 2015. It was about getting candidates elected ...

    What DA Krasner’s Likely Impeachment Tells Us About Reform Opponents

    Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is probably getting impeached. At a time when US ...

    El Paso DA Turmoil Could Have Profound Immigrant-Rights Implications

    The District Attorney of El Paso County, Texas, Yvonne Rosales, is decidedly non-progressive. When ...