Tag: criminal injustice
High-Stakes Race to Be Pittsburgh’s Top Prosecutor Refuses to Die
The 2019 competition for who gets to be Allegheny County, Pennsylvania’s elected District Attorney ...
Inspired by the Queens DA Battle? Here Are Four More Key Races in 2019
Tiffany Cabán, a highly progressive, 31-year-old queer Latina public defender, stunned the world last ...
Which Presidential Candidate Would Give David Barren His Freedom?
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, published in 2010, probably did more than any ...
Could Ending Asset Forfeiture Be a First Step Towards Reparations?
Coinciding with Juneteenth, a day honoring the emancipation of enslaved peoples, Congress held the ...
Arrested While “Panicking on Meth”—An Hour Later, He Was Dead
Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May ...
NYC Defenders: District Attorneys Breaking Their Promises to End Marijuana Prosecutions
On June 11, New York City public defenders released data demonstrating that district attorneys ...
Probation Officers Should Never Direct Medical Care for People With OUD
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment ...
“Spit-and-Acquit” Embodies a Californian DA’s Dystopia
Here’s a good formula for dystopia: a ”spit-and-acquit” program to create a genetic surveillance ...
Denial of Methadone Devastates Incarcerated People: What Hope?
When people who are dependent on opioids are incarcerated and denied access, they go ...
Data Platform Scores California Police Departments a Resounding “F” for Racial Bias
Every person in prison is a policy failure,” is a common phrase in abolitionist ...
