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Progressive Prosecutor Candidates Discuss Decarceration and the Justice Reform amid COVID-19 Threats

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|Date: April 16, 2020
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Progressive Prosecutor Candidates Discuss Decarceration and the Justice Reform amid COVID-19 Threats

Can the end result of the global pandemic threat of COVID-19 be a fairer and more equitable justice syste ...

Can the end result of the global pandemic threat of COVID-19 be a fairer and more equitable justice system? That’s what prosecution candidates from across the country—Janos Marton from Manhattan, Mel ...

April 16, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 60 – Arlington Prosecutor Parisa Tafti

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|Date: April 13, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 60 – Arlington Prosecutor Parisa Tafti

Arlington Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti was elected as the commonwealth's prosecut ...

Arlington Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti was elected as the commonwealth's prosecutor overwhelmingly in November after stunning the incumbent prosecutor Theo Stamos by a 52-48 ma ...

April 13, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Every Public Official with the Power to Decarcerate Must Exercise That Power Now

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|Date: April 11, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Every Public Official with the Power to Decarcerate Must Exercise That Power Now

Doing so will save countless lives, and in the process, they may show us by example how to begin, finally ...

Doing so will save countless lives, and in the process, they may show us by example how to begin, finally, to dismantle mass incarceration for good. By Sharon Dolovich Most of America’s 2.3 million pr ...

April 11, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 54 – Salt Lake DA Sim Gill

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|Date: March 30, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 54 – Salt Lake DA Sim Gill

Sim Gill, born in India, is the first Indian-American prosecutor in the US and one of only two elected De ...

Sim Gill, born in India, is the first Indian-American prosecutor in the US and one of only two elected Democrats in the entire state of Utah. He first was elected in November 2010. He has enacted a se ...

March 30, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 53 – Boulder DA Michael Dougherty

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|Date: March 27, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 53 – Boulder DA Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty came to Boulder from Manhattan and worked as a deputy in the DA's office for nearly 20 ...

Michael Dougherty came to Boulder from Manhattan and worked as a deputy in the DA's office for nearly 20 years before being appointed in 2018 to replace the long time prosecutor. He then won on his ow ...

March 27, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 52 – Virginia Prosecutor Buta Biberaj

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|Date: March 23, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 52 – Virginia Prosecutor Buta Biberaj

Buta Biberaj was elected last year as Commonwealth Attorney in Loudon County Virginia. She ran as the pro ...

Buta Biberaj was elected last year as Commonwealth Attorney in Loudon County Virginia. She ran as the progressive reformer and became the first new top prosecutor in 16 years. Criminal justice reform ...

March 23, 2020
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Elected Prosecutors Call for Dramatic Reduction in Incarcerated and Detained Populations in Response to Coronavirus

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|Date: March 18, 2020
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Elected Prosecutors Call for Dramatic Reduction in Incarcerated and Detained Populations in Response to Coronavirus

(From Press Release - Fair and Just Prosecution) - Today 31 elected prosecutors representing over 17 mill ...

(From Press Release - Fair and Just Prosecution) - Today 31 elected prosecutors representing over 17 million people across the country issued a joint statement recommending immediate actions to mitiga ...

March 18, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 50 – Tiffany Caban, Former Queens DA Candidate

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|Date: March 13, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 50 – Tiffany Caban, Former Queens DA Candidate

In 2019, Tiffany Caban, a career public defender, ran for DA in Queens, NY, and came within an eyelash of ...

In 2019, Tiffany Caban, a career public defender, ran for DA in Queens, NY, and came within an eyelash of beating the establishment-backed candidate. Ms. Caban talks about what she is doing today and ...

March 13, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 49 – ACLU’s Udi Ofer Talks Justice Reform

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|Date: March 11, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 49 – ACLU’s Udi Ofer Talks Justice Reform

Udi Ofer is the ACLU Director of the Justice Division and Deputy National Political Director. We talked w ...

Udi Ofer is the ACLU Director of the Justice Division and Deputy National Political Director. We talked with him about recent elections and their implications for criminal justice reform, as well as t ...

March 11, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 48 – Contra Costa DA Diana Becton

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|Date: March 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 48 – Contra Costa DA Diana Becton

Diana Becton took an unusual route to become a prosecutor. She had served 22 years as a judge in Contra C ...

Diana Becton took an unusual route to become a prosecutor. She had served 22 years as a judge in Contra Costa County before the Board of Supervisors in 2017 appointed her interim DA, then she was elec ...

March 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 47 – Jonathan Rapping and Gideon’s Promise

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|Date: March 05, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 47 – Jonathan Rapping and Gideon’s Promise

Jonathan Rapping is a nationally renowned criminal justice innovator who is the founder and president of ...

Jonathan Rapping is a nationally renowned criminal justice innovator who is the founder and president of Gideon’s Promise, a 501(c)(3) non-profit public defender advocacy organization that provides tr ...

March 05, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Boudin Making History

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|Date: March 02, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Boudin Making History

Over the last few years we have talked a lot about progressive prosecution. We have seen some stunning v ...

Over the last few years we have talked a lot about progressive prosecution. We have seen some stunning victories, like the victory of Larry Krasner and more recently Chesa Boudin in San Francisco. We ...

March 02, 2020
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Boudin Discusses New Policies Prior to Announcement

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|Date: March 01, 2020
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Boudin Discusses New Policies Prior to Announcement

On Friday there was a day conference hosted in San Francisco by the Justice Collaborative. The first pan ...

On Friday there was a day conference hosted in San Francisco by the Justice Collaborative. The first panel, where newly-elected San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin had a conversation with US ...

March 01, 2020
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Chesa Boudin Ends Racial Profiling and Status Enhancements Including Gang and Prior Prison Enhancements

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 29, 2020
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Chesa Boudin Ends Racial Profiling and Status Enhancements Including Gang and Prior Prison Enhancements

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major announcement, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on Friday announced that prosecuto ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major announcement, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on Friday announced that prosecutors in his office will end the practice of charging people for possession of drugs or other cont ...

February 29, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 45 – Laura Conover Prosecutor Candidate in Pima County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 26, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 45 – Laura Conover Prosecutor Candidate in Pima County

Laura Conover is running for County Attorney in Pima County Arizona, home of Tuscon. According to her bio ...

Laura Conover is running for County Attorney in Pima County Arizona, home of Tuscon. According to her bio, she “dedicated her career to helping the Southern Arizona community by defending the poor, ad ...

February 26, 2020
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A New Survey Says a Majority of Voters Support Policies That Would Enable Review of Past Sentences

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|Date: February 25, 2020
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A New Survey Says a Majority of Voters Support Policies That Would Enable Review of Past Sentences

By Vaidya Gullapalli Last month, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld a 12-year prison sentence for Willi ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli Last month, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld a 12-year prison sentence for Willie Nash, a man convicted of having a cell phone with him in a local jail. Nash’s sentence, even ...

February 25, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 42: Anti-Recidivism Coalition

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 17, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 42: Anti-Recidivism Coalition

Recidivism is one of the greatest flaws of our criminal justice system—we punish people to the hilt and t ...

Recidivism is one of the greatest flaws of our criminal justice system—we punish people to the hilt and they get released without the tools to survive outside of our prison system and end up re-offend ...

February 17, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 42 – Jason Williams Runs for DA in New Orleans

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|Date: February 14, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 42 – Jason Williams Runs for DA in New Orleans

In the latest in our series on progressive candidates for district attorney, we have Jason Williams, who ...

In the latest in our series on progressive candidates for district attorney, we have Jason Williams, who will take on DA Leon Cannizzaro, one of the more notoriously aggressive prosecutors in the coun ...

February 14, 2020
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Path to Change: The Divergent Path of Two Prosecutors toward Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: February 11, 2020
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Path to Change: The Divergent Path of Two Prosecutors toward Criminal Justice Reform

Contra Costa DA Goes from Judge to Prosecutor; Butler Goes from Prosecutor to Professor and Critic One of ...

Contra Costa DA Goes from Judge to Prosecutor; Butler Goes from Prosecutor to Professor and Critic One of the panels during the day-long Progressive Prosecutor Symposium at UC Hastings College of Law ...

February 11, 2020
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Pfaff Analyzes Progressive Reform and Warns Not to Fight the Battle on Tough on Crime’s Terms

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 10, 2020
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Pfaff Analyzes Progressive Reform and Warns Not to Fight the Battle on Tough on Crime’s Terms

Fordham University Law Professor John Pfaff, author of the book Locked In, called the recent progressive ...

Fordham University Law Professor John Pfaff, author of the book Locked In, called the recent progressive prosecution movement “an interesting challenge” on Friday during the Symposium at UC Hastings. ...

February 10, 2020
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