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.

    Gwen Levi and the “Sentencing Goals” That Shouldn’t Apply

    Around 90 percent of criminal cases are handled by county court systems, where inflexibility ...

    Mass. DA Exemplifies How the “Progressive Prosecutor” Tag Is Overused

    During a recent webinar hosted by Prosecutorial Performance Indicators, an organization that encourages better ...

    Is the Tide Turning Against Public Sex Offender Registries?

    On June 8, the American Law Institute, arguably the most prestigious non-governmental law reform ...

    Alvin Bragg Likely to Be Manhattan’s Next DA: What Are the Implications?

    The Democratic primary for Manhattan’s next district attorney was a big mess. Leading up ...

    Scapegoating of Chesa Boudin Reflects Ugly Attitudes to Unhoused People

    A few years back, an article describing Fayetteville made the small North Carolina city ...

    Prosecutors Don’t Just Enforce Laws—They Lobby Hard to Make Them

    Prosecutors are famous for saying they don’t make the law, they only enforce it. ...

    Larry Krasner Beats Primary Challenger Organically, in Good Sign for Reformers

    The first re-election bid of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner—probably the figure most associated ...

    SCOTUS Shamefully Allows Past Non-Unanimous Jury Convictions to Stand

    Chelsea Clinton surprised criminal justice reform activists when she recently backed Color of Change’s ...