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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sanders Lays Out Plan for Massive Overhaul of Criminal Justice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 19, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sanders Lays Out Plan for Massive Overhaul of Criminal Justice System

It was one of the shortcomings of his 2016 campaign, but it is a shortcoming no more as Bernie Sanders on ...

It was one of the shortcomings of his 2016 campaign, but it is a shortcoming no more as Bernie Sanders on Sunday unveiled perhaps the most ambitious plan for overhauling the criminal justice system – ...

August 19, 2019
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Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: August 16, 2019
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Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform

By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Misso ...

By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General William Barr descended on New Orleans to deliver a major policy address. ...

August 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors

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|Date: August 15, 2019
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Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors

Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his grea ...

Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his greatest vitriol was reserved for the Boston DA’s attempt to rein in police. By John Pfaff U.S. Att ...

August 15, 2019
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Candidates Get Testy during the Candidate Question Portion of the SF DA Debate – Part III

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 09, 2019
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Candidates Get Testy during the Candidate Question Portion of the SF DA Debate – Part III

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings La ...

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings Law School on Tuesday in a candidates forum sponsored by Eastern Neighborhood Democratic Club, AC ...

August 09, 2019
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The First Beneficiary of a Sentence Review Unit Walks Free

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|Date: August 09, 2019
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The First Beneficiary of a Sentence Review Unit Walks Free

By Sarah Lustbader Last week, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan reported that a 57-year-old man ...

By Sarah Lustbader Last week, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan reported that a 57-year-old man has become the first person freed under a new law that lets prosecutors review and revise old s ...

August 09, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 2

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 08, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 2

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings La ...

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings Law School on Tuesday in a candidates forum sponsored by Eastern Neighborhood Democratic Club, AC ...

August 08, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 1

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 07, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 1

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings La ...

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings Law School on Tuesday in a candidates forum sponsored by Eastern Neighborhood Democratic Club, AC ...

August 07, 2019
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The First Step Act Freed People – Now Prosecutors Are Trying to Lock Some of Them Up Again

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|Date: August 02, 2019
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The First Step Act Freed People – Now Prosecutors Are Trying to Lock Some of Them Up Again

By Sarah Lustbader Monae Davis, a beneficiary of the First Step Act, left prison on March 7. “Now the U.S ...

By Sarah Lustbader Monae Davis, a beneficiary of the First Step Act, left prison on March 7. “Now the U.S. Justice Department is trying to lock him back up,” reports Andy Sullivan for Reuters. As Davi ...

August 02, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 2 – Lisa Rea – Restorative Justice

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 26, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 2 – Lisa Rea – Restorative Justice

Lisa Rea is the president and founder of Restorative Justice International (RJI). RJI is an international ...

Lisa Rea is the president and founder of Restorative Justice International (RJI). RJI is an international association and network first created in 2008 through social media with over 6000 members and ...

July 26, 2019
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Rachel Barkow Speaks at UC Davis Law School (Video)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 12, 2019
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Rachel Barkow Speaks at UC Davis Law School (Video)

In front a large audience on Wednesday evening, NYU Law Professor Rachel Barkow discussed her book, Priso ...

In front a large audience on Wednesday evening, NYU Law Professor Rachel Barkow discussed her book, Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. During her discussion, she addresse ...

July 12, 2019
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Are We Witnessing the Start of Another Progressive Revolution in the SF DA’s Race?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2019
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Are We Witnessing the Start of Another Progressive Revolution in the SF DA’s Race?

San Francisco - On Tuesday, the next domino fell as progressive DA candidate Tiffany Caban bucked the est ...

San Francisco - On Tuesday, the next domino fell as progressive DA candidate Tiffany Caban bucked the establishment, backed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and may well have pulled off ano ...

June 28, 2019
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Are We Witnessing the Start of Another Progressive Revolution in the SF DA’s Race?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2019
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Are We Witnessing the Start of Another Progressive Revolution in the SF DA’s Race?

San Francisco - On Tuesday, the next domino fell as progressive DA candidate Tiffany Caban bucked the est ...

San Francisco - On Tuesday, the next domino fell as progressive DA candidate Tiffany Caban bucked the establishment, backed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and may well have pulled off ano ...

June 28, 2019
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A New Wave of Prosecutorial Transparency

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 13, 2019
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A New Wave of Prosecutorial Transparency

By the Appeal It should be news to no one that prosecutors are supremely powerful and have played an outs ...

By the Appeal It should be news to no one that prosecutors are supremely powerful and have played an outsize role in mass incarceration, but what can be done? Until the public knows what prosecutors a ...

June 13, 2019
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Marijuana Legalization Has a Racial Component

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Marijuana Legalization Has a Racial Component

By Charlotte Resing Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds ...

By Charlotte Resing Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds of thousands of people, the majority of whom are Black or Latinx, have their lives impacted by ...

April 22, 2019
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Will State End Involvement in For-Profit, Private Prisons?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 01, 2019
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Will State End Involvement in For-Profit, Private Prisons?

Back in December, Oakland Assemblymember Rob Bonta introduced AB 32, which would prohibit California’s us ...

Back in December, Oakland Assemblymember Rob Bonta introduced AB 32, which would prohibit California’s use of for-profit, private prisons. He also introduced AB 33, requiring CalPERS and CalSTRS, Cal ...

April 01, 2019
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People Are Charged with Crimes that Waste Taxpayers’ Money and Prosecutors’ Time

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|Date: March 24, 2019
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People Are Charged with Crimes that Waste Taxpayers’ Money and Prosecutors’ Time

By Rahsaan Hall America’s growing awareness of mass incarceration and the over-incarceration of people of ...

By Rahsaan Hall America’s growing awareness of mass incarceration and the over-incarceration of people of color has sparked something nationwide: From Birmingham to Boston, voters are electing progres ...

March 24, 2019
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Leniency Shown to Paul Manafort Should Be the Norm for Everyone

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|Date: March 12, 2019
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Leniency Shown to Paul Manafort Should Be the Norm for Everyone

By Udi Ofer Last week, Americans got a front row seat to the two systems of justice we have in America, o ...

By Udi Ofer Last week, Americans got a front row seat to the two systems of justice we have in America, one reserved for rich white men and the other for communities of color. Unfortunately, though, m ...

March 12, 2019
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William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration

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|Date: January 13, 2019
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William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration

By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr adde ...

By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr added to the zeitgeist of “tough-on-crime” policies when he issued the Bush administration’s “24 Re ...

January 13, 2019
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PPIC Report Finds Arrest Rates Plummet to Historic Lows in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 07, 2018
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PPIC Report Finds Arrest Rates Plummet to Historic Lows in California

While Disparities Have Narrowed, Large Gaps Remain Between African Americans and Whites Crime and policin ...

While Disparities Have Narrowed, Large Gaps Remain Between African Americans and Whites Crime and policing have been the subject of heated debates in California and nationwide, while crime rates have ...

December 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Prop 47 Spares Offenders from Prison, but County Jail May Be Worse

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|Date: November 29, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Prop 47 Spares Offenders from Prison, but County Jail May Be Worse

By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the peop ...

By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the people for whom our state sought to decrease penalties, have been buried under a tomb of harsher pu ...

November 29, 2018
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