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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
| by David Greenwald

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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
| by David Greenwald

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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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Probation System Squeezes the Poor and Feeds Mass Incarceration

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|Date: November 19, 2018
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Probation System Squeezes the Poor and Feeds Mass Incarceration

By Andrea Young Charles “Skip” Eckartz, a 63-year-old disabled veteran, and his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Ec ...

By Andrea Young Charles “Skip” Eckartz, a 63-year-old disabled veteran, and his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Eckartz, were arrested in their Georgia home for manufacturing marijuana. They were incarcerated ...

November 19, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the ...

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, laid the foundation for criminal justice reform efforts. However, I th ...

November 11, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Ending Mass Incarceration and Reinventing the Role of the Modern Prosecutor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 29, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Ending Mass Incarceration and Reinventing the Role of the Modern Prosecutor

The New Yorker this week has a feature article on Larry Krasner, the reform-minded district attorney of P ...

The New Yorker this week has a feature article on Larry Krasner, the reform-minded district attorney of Philadelphia. After watching Dean Johansson this year nearly pull off his own improbable run, i ...

October 29, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Man Gets Eight Years in Mississippi For Medical Marijuana Purchased Legally in Another State

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 23, 2018
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Man Gets Eight Years in Mississippi For Medical Marijuana Purchased Legally in Another State

By Ezekiel Edwards Patrick Beadle, a 46-year-old father and musician, received an eight-year prison sente ...

By Ezekiel Edwards Patrick Beadle, a 46-year-old father and musician, received an eight-year prison sentence in Mississippi for possessing 2.89 pounds of marijuana. If his sentence stands, he would sp ...

October 23, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Arrogance of Incumbency

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 08, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: The Arrogance of Incumbency

Doesn't an Elected Official Owe It to the Voters to Participate in Candidate Forums? Dean Johansson tells ...

Doesn't an Elected Official Owe It to the Voters to Participate in Candidate Forums? Dean Johansson tells the story about his encounter with Jeff Reisig: “I did track him down on the street when he wa ...

April 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Reisig a No-Show at King Hall Law School Candidates Forum

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2018
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Reisig a No-Show at King Hall Law School Candidates Forum

Students at UC Davis’ Law School invited both DA candidates to participate in a candidates forum. Challe ...

Students at UC Davis’ Law School invited both DA candidates to participate in a candidates forum. Challenger Dean Johansson showed up, but incumbent Jeff Reisig was once again a no-show, never respon ...

April 06, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Does a Prosecutor Have to Be Tough on Crime?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 02, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Does a Prosecutor Have to Be Tough on Crime?

I found Matt Rexroad's letter in support of DA Jeff Reisig interesting. I asked him if he would submit i ...

I found Matt Rexroad's letter in support of DA Jeff Reisig interesting. I asked him if he would submit it to the Vanguard, but he declined, suggesting this wasn't the audience he wanted to reach. Fin ...

April 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Should There Be Effective Life Without Parole in Non-Capital Cases?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 20, 2018
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Commentary: Should There Be Effective Life Without Parole in Non-Capital Cases?

Last week Judge David Reed sentenced Joseph Hernandez to 93 years in prison. That means the 26-year-old ...

Last week Judge David Reed sentenced Joseph Hernandez to 93 years in prison. That means the 26-year-old would effectively be 119 at the time his sentence expires, or 106 by the time he is eligible fo ...

March 20, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Making a Life After Incarceration Shouldn’t Be Impossible

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|Date: February 11, 2018
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Making a Life After Incarceration Shouldn’t Be Impossible

By Laurin Leonard In 2012, I founded an organization called Mission: Launch with my mom. Based out of Bal ...

By Laurin Leonard In 2012, I founded an organization called Mission: Launch with my mom. Based out of Baltimore, Mission:Launch helps formerly incarcerated individuals become self-sufficient faster. F ...

February 11, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Can Johansson Become Yolo’s Larry Krasner?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 28, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Can Johansson Become Yolo’s Larry Krasner?

In November, Larry Krasner, a man who spent his career defending criminals and protecting civil rights an ...

In November, Larry Krasner, a man who spent his career defending criminals and protecting civil rights and who campaigned on reforming a criminal justice system that he described as overly punitive an ...

January 28, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Breaking News: Johansson Formally Announces for DA

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 25, 2018
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Breaking News: Johansson Formally Announces for DA

Flanked by supporters, and pledging to “provide justice for all,” longtime Yolo County Deputy Public Defe ...

Flanked by supporters, and pledging to “provide justice for all,” longtime Yolo County Deputy Public Defender Dean Johansson formally announced Thursday morning that he is running for Yolo County Dist ...

January 25, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Ending Mass Incarceration Is a Winner for Politicians

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 16, 2018
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Ending Mass Incarceration Is a Winner for Politicians

By Inimai Chettiar & Udi Ofer For decades, politicians competed to see who could push the most dracon ...

By Inimai Chettiar & Udi Ofer For decades, politicians competed to see who could push the most draconian criminal justice policies. Jeff Sessions's announcement this month that he would authorize ...

January 16, 2018
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Jared Kushner’s Prison Reform Plan Doesn’t Promise Much

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 13, 2018
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Jared Kushner’s Prison Reform Plan Doesn’t Promise Much

By Marc Mauer On Thursday, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner hosted a listening session for his fa ...

By Marc Mauer On Thursday, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner hosted a listening session for his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, on prison reform. Unfortunately, his plans don’t inspire m ...

January 13, 2018
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