Tag: criminal injustice

    Why So Many Prosecutors Enjoy Uncontested Re-Election

    There is so much we don’t know about local prosecutors’ offices. Despite handling the ...

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    Rory Fleming

    Rikers Body Scanners Risk Jailed New Yorkers’ Health

    Machines that were once prohibited from being used in New York jails were rolled ...

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    Filter Staff

    DA Candidate Plans to Abolish NYC’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor

    “Perhaps no one and nothing else in New York City better represents the worst ...

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    Filter Staff

    Radical Theater Performance Subverts Rikers Violence

    Christmas was a week away. The sky was baby blue, but you wouldn’t have ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

    Prosecutors Must Learn From Drug Users—But That Takes Humility

    Across the US, most health professionals can now find opportunities to learn how to ...

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    Rory Fleming

    Britain’s “Most Prolific” Rapist Spurs Misguided GHB Crackdown

    The UK is moving towards a crackdown on GHB and GBL—two highly similar depressants, ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

    As Reform Prosecutors Take Office, Courts Start Working Against Them

    A new year means that all the candidates who won local elections in November ...

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    Rory Fleming

    What Activists Are Looking for in Implementation of NY’s 2020 Bail Reforms

    As of January 1, cash bail is no longer legally applicable to the vast ...

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    Filter Staff

    Philadelphia Mayor’s Worrying Pick for New Police Commissioner

    When Danielle Outlaw became Portland’s police chief in 2017, she was the first Black ...

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    Rory Fleming

    World’s First Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Panel Starts Work in Denver

    The first ever Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel in the US is about to ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman