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.

    Seattle Times Slightly Obsessed With Abolitionist City Attorney Candidate

    Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, a Seattle candidate for city attorney and self-identified prison and police abolitionist, ...

    CA Prosecutor’s Fentanyl Warnings Aren’t About Overdose Prevention 

    Despite claims at being a “reformer,” Jeff Reisig, the Yolo County, California, district attorney ...

    Baltimore Study Boosts Movements to Decriminalize Drugs and Sex Work

    Replication is of paramount importance, in the sciences, in determining whether an earlier research ...

    We Need Better Mechanisms to Fire Prosecutors Who Flout Basic Ethics

    The KKK-adjacent Louisiana district attorney. The alleged “sexual predator” Louisiana district attorney, convicted of ...

    A Judge Jailed an Abuse Survivor Mid-Testimony—for Legal Marijuana Use

    On September 7, a survivor of domestic violence in Virginia was testifying against the ...

    What Not to Read Into the FBI’s Latest Murder Data

    The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report is severely limited. Although 85 percent of America’s ...

    Survey Aims to Quantify Societal Stigma Against People Who Use Drugs

    Despite recent policy strides like decriminalization in Oregon and authorization of a safe consumption ...

    District Attorneys Could Be Key to the post-Roe v. Wade Abortion Battle

    Ever since President Trump started nominating new Supreme Court justices, reproductive health activists and ...

    More Evidence That Coerced Drug Treatment Is Harmful as Well as Wrong

    A paper published by the International Journal of Drug Policy confirms what harm reductionists ...