Tag: criminal justice
What Drugs, Sex Work and One Key Case Mean for the Baltimore DA Race
In 2018, attorney Ivan Bates ran against incumbent Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and ...
Infrastructure Bill Targets Drug-Impaired Driving by Funding Cops and Courts
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill, passed by the House of Representatives on November ...
Seattle Times Slightly Obsessed With Abolitionist City Attorney Candidate
Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, a Seattle candidate for city attorney and self-identified prison and police abolitionist, ...
De Blasio Rejects Decarceration as Human Rights Catastrophe Consumes Rikers
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declined to pursue decarceration for the Rikers ...
District Attorneys Could Be Key to the post-Roe v. Wade Abortion Battle
Ever since President Trump started nominating new Supreme Court justices, reproductive health activists and ...
Illinois Moves to End Cash Bail, Reform Pretrial Procedures
A landmark criminal justice reform bill in Illinois will not only end cash bail ...
William Barr, Exiting, Quietly Guts Federal Court Oversight of Police
Less than two weeks before former US Attorney General William Barr announced his resignation ...
“A Perfect Example of Targeting”—Marijuana Injustice in Southeast Brooklyn
For two years in a row now, political efforts to legalize marijuana in the ...
Why Private Prisons Are at the Center of a Pennsylvania Prosecutor Race
The involvement of for-profit in managing jails and prisons in one Pennsylvania county could ...
