On June 4, Chandran Vithushan, a young man in Sri Lanka, was buried by his family. He had been arrested…
The Democratic primary for Manhattan’s next district attorney was a big mess. Leading up to the June 22 election, there…
A few years back, an article describing Fayetteville made the small North Carolina city look like a hotbed of hatred…
From 2010-2019, the state of New Jersey spent more than $11 billion fighting the drug war—and overdose deaths only increased.…
On June 8, reporter Sam Mellins tweeted a photo of a January 6, 1999 letter from then-Queens Assistant District Attorney…
Prosecutors are famous for saying they don’t make the law, they only enforce it. In recent years, prominent legal scholars…
When Emma Semler, a woman in her 20s who shared drugs with a friend who tragically died, was sentenced in…
By every measure, the global drug war has failed. It has failed to decrease drug use and sales. Drug-involved overdose…
The first re-election bid of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner—probably the figure most associated with the “progressive prosecutor” movement—was closely…
Chelsea Clinton surprised criminal justice reform activists when she recently backed Color of Change’s “Still in Prison'' campaign, which sheds…