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, ...

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

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

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    Baltimore Study Boosts Movements to Decriminalize Drugs and Sex Work

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

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    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 ...

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    Charleston Prosecutors Treat Black and White Men Equally, Report Finds. Really?

    How many former prosecutors does it take to give a white elected prosecutor in ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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