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.

    How Certain DAs in Red States Could Avoid Prosecuting Abortion Post-Roe

    The year is 2022. The Supreme Court just issued its ruling in Dobbs v. ...

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    The Influential HOPE Probation Program Is Badly Misnamed

    Last month, a woman won $7 million in a federal court in Hawaii against ...

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    What Drugs, Sex Work and One Key Case Mean for the Baltimore DA Race

    In 2018, attorney Ivan Bates ran against incumbent Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and ...

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    The Right Uses Wisconsin Parade Tragedy to Attack Bail Reform

    After an SUV ploughed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, ...

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    Why the ACLU Is Taking On Wyoming’s Pretrial “24/7 Sobriety” Program

    Criminologists and, increasingly, local court systems love the idea of “swift, certain and fair” ...

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    The Data Gatekeeper Spinning Pennsylvania’s Prisons Narrative

    In 2017, at the American Society of Criminology’s annual conference in Philadelphia, then-President James ...

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    Legal Professors’ Lawsuit Spotlights Resistance to Prosecutor Accountability

    A fight over law professors’ free speech rights shows just how far state bars ...

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    Exit of Draconian Fort Worth DA Will Leave Opening for Reform 

    Just a few years back, Tarrant County, Texas, which includes Fort Worth, was dubbed ...

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    After GOP Sweep, Virginia’s AG-Elect Takes Aim at Reform Prosecutors

    The impact of the Republican sweep in Virginia on November 2 won’t be limited ...

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    A Bad Election Night for Bids to Transform Criminal-Legal Systems

    The future of criminal justice was on the ballot across the United States on ...

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