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Punishment without Crime

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: January 18, 2020
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Punishment without Crime

A Duke University Book Panel Featuring Author Alexandra Natapoff By Danielle Silva Duke University hosted ...

A Duke University Book Panel Featuring Author Alexandra Natapoff By Danielle Silva Duke University hosted a panel on Alexandra Natapoff’s Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System T ...

January 18, 2020
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Coercive Plea Bargaining Has Poisoned the Criminal Justice System

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|Date: January 15, 2020
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Coercive Plea Bargaining Has Poisoned the Criminal Justice System

The vast number of cases brought under our system of mass incarceration means that plea bargaining is the ...

The vast number of cases brought under our system of mass incarceration means that plea bargaining is the only way for courts to get through the sheer number of cases in their dockets. This system lac ...

January 15, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 28 – Meet Eli Savit, Washtenaw County’s Progressive DA Candidate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 28 – Meet Eli Savit, Washtenaw County’s Progressive DA Candidate

Eli Savit is an attorney, a law professor, and a former public school teacher. A former law clerk to Just ...

Eli Savit is an attorney, a law professor, and a former public school teacher. A former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eli currently serves as the City of Detroit's senior legal counsel, wh ...

January 06, 2020
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Habitual Offender Laws Are Like ‘Death Sentences’

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|Date: December 24, 2019
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Habitual Offender Laws Are Like ‘Death Sentences’

One man, Paul Houser, is serving 60 years on a drug conviction for purchasing cold medicine and batteries ...

One man, Paul Houser, is serving 60 years on a drug conviction for purchasing cold medicine and batteries. He's one of 2,600 people incarcerated as a result of the state's three strikes laws. By Laure ...

December 24, 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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Defining Prison Abolitionism in a Time of Progressive Prosecutors

Posted by Danielle Silva
|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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Students Beyond the Stats: A Safe Space for Formerly-Incarcerated and Systematically-Impacted Students

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: October 31, 2019
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Students Beyond the Stats: A Safe Space for Formerly-Incarcerated and Systematically-Impacted Students

By Danielle Silva For three years, Beyond the Stats (BTS) has been a student organization at UC Davis tha ...

By Danielle Silva For three years, Beyond the Stats (BTS) has been a student organization at UC Davis that provides a safe space for formerly-incarcerated and systematically-impacted students to talk ...

October 31, 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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New Signed Legislation Benefits Those Jailed, Threatened with Jail and Those Who Have Paid for Crimes

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|Date: October 11, 2019
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New Signed Legislation Benefits Those Jailed, Threatened with Jail and Those Who Have Paid for Crimes

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series o ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of largely unheralded – but key – bills this week creating new laws that mostly benefit either t ...

October 11, 2019
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California: Legislature Adopts a Flurry of Reforms, but Voting Rights Wait for 2020

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|Date: September 21, 2019
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California: Legislature Adopts a Flurry of Reforms, but Voting Rights Wait for 2020

By Daniel Nichanian Before adjourning for the year on Friday, California’s legislature passed a series of ...

By Daniel Nichanian Before adjourning for the year on Friday, California’s legislature passed a series of reforms to its criminal legal system. These bills are now all on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. ...

September 21, 2019
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Bill to Repeal One-Year Sentence Enhancement Passes Assembly

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|Date: September 13, 2019
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Bill to Repeal One-Year Sentence Enhancement Passes Assembly

Senate Bill 136 repeals a commonly used, expensive, and ineffective one-year sentence enhancement that is ...

Senate Bill 136 repeals a commonly used, expensive, and ineffective one-year sentence enhancement that is added to each prior prison or felony jail term that an individual has served (From Press Relea ...

September 13, 2019
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California Lawmakers Pass Historic Bill Abolishing Copays in Jails and Prisons

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|Date: September 10, 2019
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California Lawmakers Pass Historic Bill Abolishing Copays in Jails and Prisons

If signed by the governor, AB 45 would eliminate medical and dental copays for people incarcerated in Cal ...

If signed by the governor, AB 45 would eliminate medical and dental copays for people incarcerated in California jails and prisons Today, the California Senate voted to pass AB 45, state legislation i ...

September 10, 2019
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Recognizing the ‘Dual Victim’

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|Date: September 01, 2019
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Recognizing the ‘Dual Victim’

By Vaidya Gullapalli In Pennsylvania, the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration is calling for an e ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli In Pennsylvania, the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration is calling for an end to life without parole sentences. Pennsylvania has sent more people to prison for life—numbe ...

September 01, 2019
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Bail Isn’t Supposed to Be a Punishment. Why Does the Media Keep Acting Like It Is?

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|Date: August 29, 2019
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Bail Isn’t Supposed to Be a Punishment. Why Does the Media Keep Acting Like It Is?

How high or low a bond is isn’t a measure of how severe the state considers a crime. The public’s percept ...

How high or low a bond is isn’t a measure of how severe the state considers a crime. The public’s perception of crime is often significantly out of alignment with the reality. This is caused, in part, ...

August 29, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 21, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren publis ...

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren published hers – on Medium. “The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 20% ...

August 21, 2019
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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
| by David Greenwald

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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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