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.

    Alabama Parole Board’s Cruel and Unprecedented Increase in Denials

    Representative Chris England, the chairman of the Alabama Democrats, does not mince words when ...

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    Clemency for Ex-Weather Underground Member Who Is DA Chesa Boudin’s Dad

    The 1981 Brink’s armored truck heist in Nanuet, New York is notorious. The botched ...

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    WI Judge Defies the Law by Doubling as a “Probation Officer” 

    In the opinion of Amanda Skorr, an attorney and former public defender, Outagamie County, ...

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    Prosecutors Call on Biden to Create Task Force Aimed at Reform

    Decrying “tough-on-crime” policies, a group of more than 100 law enforcement leaders, mostly prosecutors, ...

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    A Look Behind the Campaign to Recall Progressive Prosecutors in Virginia

    A recall campaign targeting so-called progressive prosecutors in Virginia has made recent headlines. To ...

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    Santa Clara County’s Prosecutor Race Will Be Intense—And Personal

    Since taking office in 2011, Santa Clara County (San Jose), California District Attorney Jeff ...

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    Bombshell Paper Names the Federal Judges Guilty of the Most Racist Sentencing 

    It has long been known that people of color get harsher criminal sentences in ...

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    This Iowa Prosecutor Race Will Be a Significant National Yardstick 

    The County Attorney’s Office in Polk County (Des Moines), Iowa has gotten little attention ...

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    Biden Pick of Rachael Rollins for US Attorney of Mass. a Mixed Blessing

    President Joe Biden has announced his intention to appoint Suffolk County (Boston) District Attorney ...

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    In Seeking Rural Reform Prosecutors to “Uplift,” Don’t Set the Bar Too Low

    Saying the criminal-legal system is a system like saying a forest is a tree. ...

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