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Experts Maintain Unvaccinated Incarcerated Pose COVID Threat to Safety Of General Public

Posted by Neha Malhi
|Date: December 29, 2021
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Experts Maintain Unvaccinated Incarcerated Pose COVID Threat to Safety Of General Public

By Neha Malhi NEW YORK, NY - With Omicron—the new COVID-19 variant—the U.S. is going to see an increase i ...

By Neha Malhi NEW YORK, NY - With Omicron—the new COVID-19 variant—the U.S. is going to see an increase in infection outbreaks, especially for those held in jails, prisons and ICE facilities, accordin ...

December 29, 2021
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Report: Thousands of Incarcerated People in California Are Serving Excessively Long Sentences and Could Be Safely Released

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 15, 2021
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Report: Thousands of Incarcerated People in California Are Serving Excessively Long Sentences and Could Be Safely Released

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - A report released this month found that, despite the ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - A report released this month found that, despite the fact that California has enacted a series of criminal justice reforms over the past decade, mo ...

December 15, 2021
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Federal Bill Would Reform U.S. Clemency System, Address Mass Incarceration Crisis

Posted by Carson Eschen
|Date: December 14, 2021
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Federal Bill Would Reform U.S. Clemency System, Address Mass Incarceration Crisis

By Carson Eschen WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Cori Bush (MO- ...

By Carson Eschen WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Cori Bush (MO-01) and Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) a new legislation Friday dedicated to reforming the nation’s cl ...

December 14, 2021
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Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Is Not Dead Yet

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|Date: December 03, 2021
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Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Is Not Dead Yet

By Rory Fleming On November 30, prominent Substack journalist and podcaster Adam Johnson made a number of ...

By Rory Fleming On November 30, prominent Substack journalist and podcaster Adam Johnson made a number of provocative claims about criminal justice reform: that it is “politically dead,” that the prog ...

December 03, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 132: Former Miami Prosecutorial Candidate Melba Pearson

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|Date: November 29, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 132: Former Miami Prosecutorial Candidate Melba Pearson

In 2020, Melba Pearson ran to attempt to unseat, unsuccessfully, the 27-year incumbent prosecutor of Miam ...

In 2020, Melba Pearson ran to attempt to unseat, unsuccessfully, the 27-year incumbent prosecutor of Miami-Dade County. Now she is policy director of the FIU (Florida International University) projec ...

November 29, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 129: New Orleans DA Jason Williams

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|Date: November 08, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 129: New Orleans DA Jason Williams

It was once a poster child for things like wrongful convictions and the carceral state. But the Orleans ...

It was once a poster child for things like wrongful convictions and the carceral state. But the Orleans Parish DA has transformed his office—immediately dismissing over 400 cases that were prosecuted ...

November 08, 2021
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Commentary: Obstructing Criminal Justice Reforms Makes Us All Less Safe

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 27, 2021
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Commentary: Obstructing Criminal Justice Reforms Makes Us All Less Safe

By Gil Garcetti, Ira Reiner and Miriam Aroni Krinsky In the 1980s and ‘90s, California embarked on a disa ...

By Gil Garcetti, Ira Reiner and Miriam Aroni Krinsky In the 1980s and ‘90s, California embarked on a disastrous social experiment. Legislators embraced reactionary law-and-order policies that ratchete ...

October 27, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 126: San Joaquin DA Tori Verber Salazar – Conservative Reformer

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|Date: October 18, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 126: San Joaquin DA Tori Verber Salazar – Conservative Reformer

In 2020, San Joaquin District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar made headlines when she resigned from the Cali ...

In 2020, San Joaquin District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar made headlines when she resigned from the California District Attorney Association (CDAA) after noting the organization has been opposing cri ...

October 18, 2021
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Prison to University Pipeline: How the Berkeley Underground Scholars Helps Formerly Incarcerated Students

Posted by Jacqueline Nguyen
|Date: October 14, 2021
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Prison to University Pipeline: How the Berkeley Underground Scholars Helps Formerly Incarcerated Students

By Jacqueline Nguyen ALAMEDA, CA—The Berkeley Underground Scholars (BUS) organization at UC Berkeley brid ...

By Jacqueline Nguyen ALAMEDA, CA—The Berkeley Underground Scholars (BUS) organization at UC Berkeley bridges the gap between prison and higher education, giving those incarcerated, formerly and presen ...

October 14, 2021
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The Graying of Massachusetts State Prison Population: The Case for Releasing Elderly Prisoners

Posted by Alexander Jimenez
|Date: October 09, 2021
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The Graying of Massachusetts State Prison Population: The Case for Releasing Elderly Prisoners

By ALEX JIMENEZ AND ALIA JAVAID BOSTON, MASS - In an opinion piece by Scott Lehigh of the Boston Globe, a ...

By ALEX JIMENEZ AND ALIA JAVAID BOSTON, MASS - In an opinion piece by Scott Lehigh of the Boston Globe, a new Massachusetts bill is designed to reform the age-old mold of justice by releasing aging st ...

October 09, 2021
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My View: DA Attacks Zero Bail, then Absurdly Incarcerates Man for 23 Years for Nonviolent Drug Offense

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 02, 2021
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My View: DA Attacks Zero Bail, then Absurdly Incarcerates Man for 23 Years for Nonviolent Drug Offense

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – For months the Vanguard has pointed out that the Yo ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – For months the Vanguard has pointed out that the Yolo County DA's Office has played an odd game on zero bail—they complain about it every step of ...

October 02, 2021
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Former Prosecutor and Now Georgetown Law Prof Explains Prosecutors’ Contributions to Mass Incarceration in U.S.

Posted by Jake Wylie
|Date: September 27, 2021
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Former Prosecutor and Now Georgetown Law Prof Explains Prosecutors’ Contributions to Mass Incarceration in U.S.

By Jake Wylie and Koda Slingluff WASHINGTON D.C. – In an August 23 essay, Georgetown law professor and fo ...

By Jake Wylie and Koda Slingluff WASHINGTON D.C. – In an August 23 essay, Georgetown law professor and former prosecutor Paul Butler explained how prosecutors are driving mass incarceration-- and how ...

September 27, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 120: Cesar McDowell Turns His Life Around at San Quentin

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|Date: August 16, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 120: Cesar McDowell Turns His Life Around at San Quentin

Cesar McDowell chronicles his journey from San Quentin to becoming, while still incarcerated, the co-foun ...

Cesar McDowell chronicles his journey from San Quentin to becoming, while still incarcerated, the co-founder and CEO of Unite The People Inc., a non profit organization that promotes social justice an ...

August 16, 2021
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The Sentencing Project Finds Huge Racial Disparities Among Youth, a Wake Up Call for Reform

Posted by Zoey Hou
|Date: July 18, 2021
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The Sentencing Project Finds Huge Racial Disparities Among Youth, a Wake Up Call for Reform

By Zoey Hou and Stacie Guevara WASHINGTON DC – The Sentencing Project has found new racial and ethnic ine ...

By Zoey Hou and Stacie Guevara WASHINGTON DC – The Sentencing Project has found new racial and ethnic inequalities in youth incarceration, as detailed in its latest fact sheets released late this last ...

July 18, 2021
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Public Defender Will Challenge Rosen for Santa Clara District Attorney

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 12, 2021
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Public Defender Will Challenge Rosen for Santa Clara District Attorney

by David M. Greenwald San Jose, CA - On Sunday, Khan, flanked by a number of fellow advocates and a crow ...

by David M. Greenwald San Jose, CA - On Sunday, Khan, flanked by a number of fellow advocates and a crowd topping 100 people, announced his intent to take on the incumbent DA in 2022. This follows e ...

July 12, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Bad Reporting by the Media is Largely Driving the Crime Panic

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Bad Reporting by the Media is Largely Driving the Crime Panic

By David M. Greenwald Earlier this week a very telling USA Today poll came out finding that a majority of ...

By David M. Greenwald Earlier this week a very telling USA Today poll came out finding that a majority of Americans—57 percent—say “there is more violent crime now in the U.S. compared to 30 years ago ...

July 11, 2021
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ACLU Praises Biden’s Announced Plan for Strengthening U.S. Commitment to Justice

Posted by Allison Hodge
|Date: June 28, 2021
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ACLU Praises Biden’s Announced Plan for Strengthening U.S. Commitment to Justice

By Allison Hodge and Lois Yoo WASHINGTON DC – Late last week, ACLU director of the Justice Division, Udi ...

By Allison Hodge and Lois Yoo WASHINGTON DC – Late last week, ACLU director of the Justice Division, Udi Ofer, offered a statement regarding President Joe Biden's Plan for Strengthening America’s Comm ...

June 28, 2021
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Guest Commentary: President Biden Can Prevent Over 4,000 People from Being Sent Back to Prison

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 22, 2021
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Guest Commentary: President Biden Can Prevent Over 4,000 People from Being Sent Back to Prison

If President Biden allows thousands of people to be sent back to federal prison, he would be presiding ov ...

If President Biden allows thousands of people to be sent back to federal prison, he would be presiding over the fastest expansion of the federal prison population in history. By Udi Ofer Imagine being ...

June 22, 2021
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Candidates For Open Manhattan DA Seat Meet in Candidates Forum

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 27, 2021
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Candidates For Open Manhattan DA Seat Meet in Candidates Forum

By David M. Greenwald New York - All eight candidates for the open Manhattan DA seat met on Tuesday in an ...

By David M. Greenwald New York - All eight candidates for the open Manhattan DA seat met on Tuesday in an event hosted by the New York Jewish Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform and moderated by Udi ...

May 27, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: The Successes and Shortcomings of Larry Krasner’s Trailblazing First Term

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 18, 2021
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Guest Commentary: The Successes and Shortcomings of Larry Krasner’s Trailblazing First Term

Philadelphia’s top prosecutor has made good on promises to reduce incarceration in the city. His re-elect ...

Philadelphia’s top prosecutor has made good on promises to reduce incarceration in the city. His re-election bid will be a litmus test for the progressive prosecutor movement he helped start. By Joshu ...

May 18, 2021
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