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The Way Forward against Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania

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|Date: November 19, 2019
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The Way Forward against Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania

by Vaidya Gullapalli Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board looked at two overlapping injus ...

by Vaidya Gullapalli Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board looked at two overlapping injustices in Pennsylvania: the large number of people sentenced to die in prison and the use of thi ...

November 19, 2019
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Unveils Sweeping Plan to Reshape American Criminal Legal System

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|Date: November 17, 2019
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Unveils Sweeping Plan to Reshape American Criminal Legal System

Under the proposal, localities would be incentivized to significantly decrease prison populations. By Kir ...

Under the proposal, localities would be incentivized to significantly decrease prison populations. By Kira Lerner Democratic Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts unveiled a sweeping resolut ...

November 17, 2019
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Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California

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|Date: November 17, 2019
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Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California

By Candice Francis There is a story we tell ourselves about being American. Much of it is a lie. Two date ...

By Candice Francis There is a story we tell ourselves about being American. Much of it is a lie. Two dates that students throughout the country are required to memorize to inform an American identity ...

November 17, 2019
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Has Granted Rodney Reed an Indefinite Stay of Execution

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|Date: November 16, 2019
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Has Granted Rodney Reed an Indefinite Stay of Execution

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously vo ...

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted in favor of a 120-day reprieve of Rodney Reed’s execution. Now, the decision lies with Gove ...

November 16, 2019
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Overpolicing on Public Transit

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|Date: November 14, 2019
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Overpolicing on Public Transit

By Sarah Lustbader “I never thought that selling corn could lead to my being torn from my family and near ...

By Sarah Lustbader “I never thought that selling corn could lead to my being torn from my family and nearly deported” In a video posted on Twitter on Friday, a small woman with a pushcart full of chur ...

November 14, 2019
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A Crisis for Indigent Defense in Massachusetts

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|Date: November 12, 2019
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A Crisis for Indigent Defense in Massachusetts

By Vaidya Gullapalli Fifteen years ago, people arrested and charged in Hampden County, Massachusetts, but ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli Fifteen years ago, people arrested and charged in Hampden County, Massachusetts, but unable to afford representation, were jailed pretrial with no lawyers to represent them. The c ...

November 12, 2019
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Chesa Boudin Talks about His Victory in San Francisco

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|Date: November 11, 2019
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Chesa Boudin Talks about His Victory in San Francisco

It remains unclear as to when exactly Chesa Boudin, the public defender who knocked off challenger Suzy L ...

It remains unclear as to when exactly Chesa Boudin, the public defender who knocked off challenger Suzy Loftus and two other candidates in a very tight race last week in San Francisco, will become San ...

November 11, 2019
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Failed ‘War on Drugs’ Needs Innovation to Transform the Status Quo

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|Date: November 09, 2019
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Failed ‘War on Drugs’ Needs Innovation to Transform the Status Quo

by Hadi Razzaq San Francisco has historically responded to street-level drug activity in the same way: pe ...

by Hadi Razzaq San Francisco has historically responded to street-level drug activity in the same way: periodically cracking down on low-level drug sellers by ramping up policing. But arresting and im ...

November 09, 2019
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Defining Prison Abolitionism in a Time of Progressive Prosecutors

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|Date: November 08, 2019
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Defining Prison Abolitionism in a Time of Progressive Prosecutors

By Danielle Silva In a time where progressive prosecutors are becoming a national movement, several organ ...

By Danielle Silva In a time where progressive prosecutors are becoming a national movement, several organizations came together to create a document outlining abolitionist principles and strategies ti ...

November 08, 2019
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Who Gets to Proclaim the Progressive Prosecutor Mantle?

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|Date: November 03, 2019
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Who Gets to Proclaim the Progressive Prosecutor Mantle?

Interim San Francisco D.A. Suzy Loftus claims to be a "progressive," but her long record as a prosecutor ...

Interim San Francisco D.A. Suzy Loftus claims to be a "progressive," but her long record as a prosecutor reveals an all-too-familiar path chosen by establishment-types who have little interest in disr ...

November 03, 2019
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Racial Impact Statements Help Prevent Regressive Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: October 27, 2019
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Racial Impact Statements Help Prevent Regressive Criminal Justice Reform

By Danielle Eden Silva While criminal justice reform is usually associated with being progressive, some l ...

By Danielle Eden Silva While criminal justice reform is usually associated with being progressive, some laws continue to add to racial disparity and mass incarceration in the prison system. Racial imp ...

October 27, 2019
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What Comes After the First Step?

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|Date: October 26, 2019
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What Comes After the First Step?

The Second Step Presidential Justice Forum provides candidates and those in office the opportunity to out ...

The Second Step Presidential Justice Forum provides candidates and those in office the opportunity to outline their plans for fixing the First Step Act By Kanya Bennett This weekend, presidential hope ...

October 26, 2019
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Find Out Whether Lamar Johnson Is Innocent of Murder

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|Date: October 25, 2019
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Find Out Whether Lamar Johnson Is Innocent of Murder

A trial court’s rejection of the findings by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s Conviction Integrity Unit is ...

A trial court’s rejection of the findings by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s Conviction Integrity Unit is the latest example of the powers that be standing in the way of justice. By Somil Trivedi and A ...

October 25, 2019
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Trump’s Disastrous Attempt at Restorative Justice

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|Date: October 24, 2019
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Trump’s Disastrous Attempt at Restorative Justice

By Sarah Lustbader Last week, the family of a British teenager, Harry Dunn, who was killed in an August c ...

By Sarah Lustbader Last week, the family of a British teenager, Harry Dunn, who was killed in an August car crash in England, traveled to the White House to push President Trump to waive diplomatic im ...

October 24, 2019
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A Numbers Game: CA Victim Compensation Board Denies Man Falsely Convicted for Decades $1 Million Claim

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|Date: October 23, 2019
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A Numbers Game: CA Victim Compensation Board Denies Man Falsely Convicted for Decades $1 Million Claim

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – In the end, it appears Maurice Caldwell is, an ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – In the end, it appears Maurice Caldwell is, and always has been, just a number. A bunch of them really. $1,049,160. That would be what the St ...

October 23, 2019
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Protesters in Front of SF Court, Angry at Loftus Appointment, Lack of Action on Police Shootings

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|Date: October 22, 2019
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Protesters in Front of SF Court, Angry at Loftus Appointment, Lack of Action on Police Shootings

A small handful of protesters took to the front of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco Monday, protestin ...

A small handful of protesters took to the front of the Hall of Justice in San Francisco Monday, protesting the first day of District Attorney Suzy Loftus’ tenure – having been appointed by Mayor Londo ...

October 22, 2019
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Cop Complaints Filed in Stockton over Alleged Officer Road Rage, in Sacramento over Abuse of Young Boy

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|Date: October 20, 2019
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Cop Complaints Filed in Stockton over Alleged Officer Road Rage, in Sacramento over Abuse of Young Boy

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO/STOCKTON – In dueling news conferences Friday, c ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO/STOCKTON – In dueling news conferences Friday, complaints against police officers for damages involving excessive force – complaints are precur ...

October 20, 2019
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Unveiling a State-by-State Plan to End our Mass Incarceration Crisis

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|Date: October 19, 2019
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Unveiling a State-by-State Plan to End our Mass Incarceration Crisis

The Smart Justice 50 State Blueprints are the product of over two years collecting data, analyzing polici ...

The Smart Justice 50 State Blueprints are the product of over two years collecting data, analyzing policies, and learning from people impacted by our criminal legal system. This is how we can end the ...

October 19, 2019
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ICE Detainee Beaten by Yuba County Jail Guard – Says Jail Treats Them ‘Worse Than Abandoned Animals’

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|Date: October 18, 2019
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ICE Detainee Beaten by Yuba County Jail Guard – Says Jail Treats Them ‘Worse Than Abandoned Animals’

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Yuba County Jail – rife with reports of inhuma ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Yuba County Jail – rife with reports of inhumane conditions for years – is facing new questions after a migrant detainee from Jamaica filed a ...

October 18, 2019
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Atatiana Jefferson’s Death Was a Failure of Policing, not the Failure of One Officer

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|Date: October 18, 2019
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Atatiana Jefferson’s Death Was a Failure of Policing, not the Failure of One Officer

By Sarah Lustbader Early Saturday morning, Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman, was at her ho ...

By Sarah Lustbader Early Saturday morning, Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman, was at her home in Texas playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when police officers responded to a ...

October 18, 2019
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