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 performed terribly, receiving only 28 percent…

November 24, 2021

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 6, is a key part of…

November 16, 2021

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, can be characterized as a member…

November 1, 2021

De Blasio Rejects Decarceration as Human Rights Catastrophe Consumes Rikers

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declined to pursue decarceration for the Rikers Island jail complex at a press…

September 16, 2021

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 court observers have sounded the alarm…

September 7, 2021

Illinois Moves to End Cash Bail, Reform Pretrial Procedures

A landmark criminal justice reform bill in Illinois will not only end cash bail within the state, but overhaul its…

March 2, 2021

William Barr, Exiting, Quietly Guts Federal Court Oversight of Police

Less than two weeks before former US Attorney General William Barr announced his resignation on December 14, the top cop…

December 29, 2020

“A Perfect Example of Targeting”—Marijuana Injustice in Southeast Brooklyn

For two years in a row now, political efforts to legalize marijuana in the state of New York have gone…

October 15, 2020

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 be turned upside down by a…

November 4, 2019