The notion that public defenders, constitutionally-mandated criminal defense lawyers, are part of the “public safety” sector has seemed to spread…
US Attorney General Merrick Garland took action on December 16 to end the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder…
Do Americans really love the drug war, mass incarceration, and the rest of our litany of criminal injustice? The 2022…
The so-called progressive prosecutor movement started around 2015. It was about getting candidates elected to implement local policies with profound…
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is probably getting impeached. At a time when US Senate candidates like Mehmet Oz in…
The District Attorney of El Paso County, Texas, Yvonne Rosales, is decidedly non-progressive. When running for the seat, Rosales stated,…
On September 13, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a resolution holding Philadelphia’s district attorney, high-profile reformer Larry Krasner, in…
The politics of prosecutors in Massachusetts this year is a complicated mess, but one that overall bodes ill for reform…
Most people do not care about their local elected prosecutor. If a voter knows what a district attorney is, it’s…
On August 4, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) suspended Andrew Warren, the elected top prosecutor for Hillsborough County (Tampa). State…