Tag: criminal injustice
Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout ...
Chicago Mayor Wants to Expand Civil Asset Forfeiture to “Gang Activity”
Chicago City Council will soon vote on a controversial ordinance to use civil asset ...
In Maximum Security Prison, the System Works to Deny Us Transfers
Since 2018, I have been incarcerated in a maximum security unit of Michigan’s Baraga ...
Prosecutors Excluded Jurors for Being Black, NC Supreme Court Finds
Juries in the United States are not just 12 people selected at random. Instead, ...
Arizona May Enact 35-Year Mandatory Minimum for “Drug Trafficking Homicide” of Kids
A kid dying of an opioid-involved overdose is a tragedy. Thankfully, it is comparatively ...
The Ex-DA Using Manhattan Institute Platform to Attack Reform Prosectors
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a big deal in US public safety ...
Proposed Drug-Decrim Ballot Initiative All Set in Washington State
Washington State activists have filed a proposed ballot initiative that would remove criminal penalties ...
CA Bill to Decriminalize “Loitering” Spotlights Cops-Turned-Politicians
A 2019 explainer from CalMatters on the difficulties of police reform in Sacramento explained ...
Prison for Selling Michael K. Williams Drugs Is Not Justice
Federal prosecutors in New York charged four men on February 2 in connection with ...
What’s Motivating the DA Charging a Minor With Drug-Induced Homicide?
After taking office in 2011, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen helped lead ...
