criminal injustice

Scapegoating of Chesa Boudin Reflects Ugly Attitudes to Unhoused People

A few years back, an article describing Fayetteville made the small North Carolina city look like a hotbed of hatred…

June 22, 2021

New Jersey Spent $11 Billion in 10 Years on Failing to Eradicate Drugs

From 2010-2019, the state of New Jersey spent more than $11 billion fighting the drug war—and overdose deaths only increased.…

June 17, 2021

What Would It Have Taken to “Stop Singas”?

On June 8, reporter Sam Mellins tweeted a photo of a January 6, 1999 letter from then-Queens Assistant District Attorney…

June 16, 2021

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. In recent years, prominent legal scholars…

June 10, 2021

Appeals Court Bolsters Fight Against Drug-Induced Homicide Charges

When Emma Semler, a woman in her 20s who shared drugs with a friend who tragically died, was sentenced in…

June 4, 2021

We Must Divest From the Failed Drug War Locally, Nationally and Globally

By every measure, the global drug war has failed. It has failed to decrease drug use and sales. Drug-involved overdose…

June 3, 2021

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 with the “progressive prosecutor” movement—was closely…

May 19, 2021

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 “Still in Prison'' campaign, which sheds…

May 18, 2021

New York Abolished Long-Term Solitary. Will Guards Get With the Program?

On April 1, after eight years of a determined grassroots campaign, the HALT Act (Humane Alternatives to Long Term Solitary…

May 6, 2021

Crime Rates, Prosecutors and Telling Public Reactions

When it comes to thinking about crime, there are arguably two main camps. There’s the academic camp, where professors and…

May 5, 2021