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.

    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 ...

    SF Mayor London Breed Plans More Drug Arrests to “Take Back Our Tenderloin”

    Declaring that “We need to take back our Tenderloin,” a hip, mixed-income neighborhood in ...

    New Orleans Result Could Increase Reformers’ Focus on Sheriff Elections

    Since 2015, both Big Philanthropy funders and progressive grassroots activists have targeted local district ...