Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 100: Manhattan DA Candidate Tahanie Aboushi Talks Reform
Cy Vance announced he would not seek reelection after four terms as DA of NY. Whoever succeeds…
Baltimore’s COVID Policies Expand after One-Year-Old Experiment Results in Decreasing Arrests
By Alexander Ramirez BALTIMORE, MD – In response to the COVID-19 outbreak that still persists today, the…
Commentary: Why I Will No Longer Support Hate Crimes Enhancements
By David M. Greenwald We live in an evolving world and anyone who has set beliefs locks…
Guest Commentary: Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts
By Miriam Krinsky and Leo Beletsky Drug overdoses dramatically rose during the pandemic to make 2020 our…
California Innocence Project, Northern California Innocence Project Webinar: Panel Discusses Progressive Prosecution
By Linhchi Nguyen CALIFORNIA – What are progressive prosecutors and what policies should they be advocating was…
California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak
By Alex Morgan and Mianna Muscat SAN FRANCISCO— UC Hastings College of the Law held its third…
San Francisco Awarded $2 Million Grant to Reduce Over-Incarceration and Fight Systemic Racism
By Mianna Muscat SAN FRANCISCO – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded San Francisco…
Community Members, Advocacy Groups Thank Public Defenders, Calling for Increased Funding
By Hannah Blome CALIFORNIA – California community members and judicial laborers led a virtual discussion last Friday…
Analysis: The True Meaning of Restorative Justice Under Chesa Boudin
By Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO – When San Francisco’s District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, ran for office in…
Possible Solutions to Prediction that Mass Incarceration will Last for 60 Years
By Avalon Amaral and Mia Machado After a decade of insufficient and incohesive decarceration efforts, the current…
Everyday Injustice Podcast 88: Adnan Khan Discusses COVID in Prisons
This week’s guest on Everyday Injustice, Adnan Khan, is the Executive Director of ReStore Justice, which he…
Current, Former Elected U.S. Prosecutors Back LA DA Gascón, Oppose Lawsuit Opposing Criminal Justice Reforms
By Lauren Smith LOS ANGELES – More than 65 current and formerly elected prosecutors from across the…
Guest Commentary: 50 Years Into the War on Drugs, Biden-Harris can Fix the Harm It Created
The war on drugs has failed, and Americans on the right and left are ready for it…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 86: Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby joined the Everyday Injustice podcast to discuss her office’s new sentencing…
Commentary: Time After Time, Discretion in Criminal Legal System Leads to Huge Racial Disparities
By David Greenwald We have seen in a wide variety of areas that, where police and prosecutors…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig Tried to Walk the Walk, but Couldn’t
By David M. Greenwald George Gascón last week week was inaugurated in as Los Angeles’ DA. On…
San Francisco DA, Fair and Just Prosecution Founder in Webinar on Racial Injustice and Mass Incarceration
By Evie Sun and Cailin Garcia MANHATTAN, NY — Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) hosted a webinar…
Guest Commentary: Voters’ Decisions on Propositions 17 and 20 Bring Hope to Criminal Justice Reform in California
By Sarah Hopkins This election cycle, Californians were presented with two propositions on their ballots—17 and 20—that…
Guest Commentary: Community Supervision, Once Intended to Help Offenders, Contributes More to Mass Incarceration
Justice officials are recognizing that community supervision can be a tripwire that perpetuates incarceration based on crimeless…
The Sentencing Project Highlights Youth Incarceration During Pandemic
By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – Josh Rovner, Senior Advocacy Associate at The Sentencing Project, a research…