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.

    Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations

    Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout ...

    CA Bill to Decriminalize “Loitering” Spotlights Cops-Turned-Politicians

    A 2019 explainer from CalMatters on the difficulties of police reform in Sacramento explained ...

    What’s Motivating the DA Charging a Minor With Drug-Induced Homicide?

    After taking office in 2011, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen helped lead ...

    Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Rapidly Backpedals on Radical Reforms

    Alvin Bragg, a former state and federal prosecutor, won the competitive 2021 Manhattan district ...

    Baltimore and Boston’s Non-Prosecution Policies Now at Grave Risk

    Two of the most significant figures in the so-called “progressive prosecutor” movement now seem ...

    As Anti-Reform Prosecutors Depart, Will Massachusetts Really Change? 

    The landscape of the criminal-legal system in one of the nation’s most progressive states ...

    Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Issues Far-Reaching Decarceration Plan

    On the campaign trail for Manhattan district attorney in 2021, Alvin Bragg was seen ...