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Amicus Brief Urges Federal Receiver for Rikers

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|Date: December 05, 2023
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Amicus Brief Urges Federal Receiver for Rikers

Special to the Vanguard New York, NY - The New York City Bar Association and the Vera Institute of Justic ...

Special to the Vanguard New York, NY - The New York City Bar Association and the Vera Institute of Justice on Monday jointly submitted an amicus brief supporting the appointment of a federal receiver ...

December 05, 2023
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Guest Commentary: 39 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year

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|Date: October 29, 2023
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Guest Commentary: 39 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year

By Sam McCann Twenty-one people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths bring th ...

By Sam McCann Twenty-one people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths bring the total number of people who have died while in the custody of the nation’s largest jail system ...

October 29, 2023
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Public Service Announcement Launched Urging Americans to ‘Wake Up’ to 50-Year Mass Incarceration Crisis

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|Date: October 15, 2023
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Public Service Announcement Launched Urging Americans to ‘Wake Up’ to 50-Year Mass Incarceration Crisis

By Audrey Sawyer WASHINGTON, DC – For the last 50 years, the United States has advanced punitive policie ...

By Audrey Sawyer WASHINGTON, DC – For the last 50 years, the United States has advanced punitive policies that have led to a staggering increase in the prison population, according to The Sentencing ...

October 15, 2023
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Guest Commentary: 35 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year

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|Date: October 10, 2023
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Guest Commentary: 35 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year

By Sam McCann 17 people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths bring the total ...

By Sam McCann 17 people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths bring the total number of people who have died while in the custody of the nation’s largest jail system this ye ...

October 10, 2023
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Pretrial Fairness Act Ends Cash Bail in Illinois

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|Date: September 20, 2023
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Pretrial Fairness Act Ends Cash Bail in Illinois

By Avery Redula and Kaveh Nasseri CHICAGO, IL - Illinois became the first state to eliminate the practic ...

By Avery Redula and Kaveh Nasseri CHICAGO, IL - Illinois became the first state to eliminate the practice of utilizing cash bail as a pretrial release condition through passing the Pretrial Fairness ...

September 20, 2023
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Justice Reform Group Opposes Los Angeles County Deal with Firm Linked to Law Enforcement

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|Date: September 16, 2023
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Justice Reform Group Opposes Los Angeles County Deal with Firm Linked to Law Enforcement

By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – The criminal justice reform group La Defensa this week, in a stro ...

By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – The criminal justice reform group La Defensa this week, in a strongly worded statement, said it opposes the Los Angeles County’s contract for “a consulting firm ...

September 16, 2023
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New York City Faces Losing Control of Rikers Island as Jail Fails to Meet Improvement Benchmarks Agreed to in Consent Decree

Posted by Julie McCaffrey
|Date: September 02, 2023
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New York City Faces Losing Control of Rikers Island as Jail Fails to Meet Improvement Benchmarks Agreed to in Consent Decree

By Julie McCaffrey NEW YORK CITY, NY - Rikers Island faced judicial scrutiny earlier this year when Judg ...

By Julie McCaffrey NEW YORK CITY, NY - Rikers Island faced judicial scrutiny earlier this year when Judge Laura Taylor Swain, of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, began the process of potentia ...

September 02, 2023
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New Report Identifies Inequities in Kansas Criminal Legal System

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|Date: August 30, 2023
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New Report Identifies Inequities in Kansas Criminal Legal System

By Holly Werris KANSAS CITY, KS - A report produced by the Vera Institute of Justice has exposed racial a ...

By Holly Werris KANSAS CITY, KS - A report produced by the Vera Institute of Justice has exposed racial and economic disparities in the criminal legal system, starting with policing. The report is bas ...

August 30, 2023
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Guest Commentary: LA’s Notorious Men’s Central Jail Sees Three Deaths in One Week

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|Date: August 13, 2023
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Guest Commentary: LA’s Notorious Men’s Central Jail Sees Three Deaths in One Week

There have been 29 deaths in Los Angeles County jails since the start of 2023, a result of the county’s o ...

There have been 29 deaths in Los Angeles County jails since the start of 2023, a result of the county’s ongoing failure to meet its commitments to build a functioning “care first” pretrial services en ...

August 13, 2023
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Guest Commentary: 26 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year

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|Date: August 06, 2023
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Guest Commentary: 26 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year

By Sam McCann Eight people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths brought the t ...

By Sam McCann Eight people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths brought the total number of people who have died while in the custody of the nation’s largest jail system th ...

August 06, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Black Drivers Were Pulled Over Less Often After a Minnesota County Changed Its Policies

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|Date: June 10, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Black Drivers Were Pulled Over Less Often After a Minnesota County Changed Its Policies

By Sam McCann Police killed Philando Castile in July 2016 after pulling him over for driving with a broke ...

By Sam McCann Police killed Philando Castile in July 2016 after pulling him over for driving with a broken taillight. All told, police in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region had pulled Castile over 49 tim ...

June 10, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Society’s Problems Call for More Than Police

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|Date: May 30, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Society’s Problems Call for More Than Police

By Nicholas Turner People across the United States agree that police should not be called on to solve eve ...

By Nicholas Turner People across the United States agree that police should not be called on to solve every problem that arises in communities—from children skipping school, to mental health crises, t ...

May 30, 2023
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Four Counties Chosen to Join Movement to End Girls’ Incarceration in California

Posted by Vaiva Utaraite
|Date: May 03, 2023
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Four Counties Chosen to Join Movement to End Girls’ Incarceration in California

By Vaiva Utaraite SACRAMENTO, CA - After a competitive process, Los Angeles, Imperial, San Diego and Sacr ...

By Vaiva Utaraite SACRAMENTO, CA - After a competitive process, Los Angeles, Imperial, San Diego and Sacramento counties will participate in the “Ending Girls’ Incarceration in California Action Netwo ...

May 03, 2023
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Vera Institute of Justice Unravels Financial Contradictions Links to Mass Incarceration

Posted by Rena Abdusalam
|Date: April 18, 2023
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Vera Institute of Justice Unravels Financial Contradictions Links to Mass Incarceration

By Rena Abdusalam NEW YORK, NY - Researchers and advocates at the Vera Institute of Justice, a non ...

By Rena Abdusalam NEW YORK, NY - Researchers and advocates at the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit devoted to equal and aligned U.S justice, charge their data and investigations suggest “ ...

April 18, 2023
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Guest Commentary: The Pretrial Pressure Cooker

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|Date: February 03, 2023
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Guest Commentary: The Pretrial Pressure Cooker

By DC Content note: Names have been changed to protect the identities of people whose experiences are des ...

By DC Content note: Names have been changed to protect the identities of people whose experiences are described in this piece. My first experience in county jail was in solitary confinement. During my ...

February 03, 2023
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Guest Commentary: What’s Ahead in the Fight for Justice and True Public Safety

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|Date: January 06, 2023
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Guest Commentary: What’s Ahead in the Fight for Justice and True Public Safety

By Nicholas Turner and Erica Bryant In 2023, the window of opportunity for true justice is open. Despite ...

By Nicholas Turner and Erica Bryant In 2023, the window of opportunity for true justice is open. Despite the $157 million spent during the midterm elections on attack ads that weaponized issues of cri ...

January 06, 2023
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Pamela Price, and Other Reform-Minded Candidates for DA, Defy Doomsday Scenarios for Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 05, 2022
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Pamela Price, and Other Reform-Minded Candidates for DA, Defy Doomsday Scenarios for Reform

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor When San Francisco voted to recall Chesa Boudin in June, many in t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor When San Francisco voted to recall Chesa Boudin in June, many in the media believed “it was the start of a backlash against reform-minded prosecutors.” But that ...

December 05, 2022
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Guest Commentary: New York Could Become the First State to Provide the Right to Legal Representation in Immigration Court

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|Date: December 04, 2022
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Guest Commentary: New York Could Become the First State to Provide the Right to Legal Representation in Immigration Court

By Nicholas Turner and Erica Bryant No one should have to face court proceedings in a language they canno ...

By Nicholas Turner and Erica Bryant No one should have to face court proceedings in a language they cannot understand, without anyone else there to represent them and protect their rights. Yet this ha ...

December 04, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Reform Prosecutors Won Big in Midterms by Rejecting Scare Tactics

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|Date: November 30, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Reform Prosecutors Won Big in Midterms by Rejecting Scare Tactics

By Sam McCann Between Labor Day and the November 8th midterm elections, voters were bombarded with at lea ...

By Sam McCann Between Labor Day and the November 8th midterm elections, voters were bombarded with at least $85 million dollars’ worth of campaign advertisements about crime. Although safety is undoub ...

November 30, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Red Wave Never Came, and Neither Did the Anti-CJR Wave

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Red Wave Never Came, and Neither Did the Anti-CJR Wave

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It was looking bleak for criminal justice reform in June —Chesa Bo ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It was looking bleak for criminal justice reform in June —Chesa Boudin in San Francisco was ousted, George Gascón in Los Angeles looked to be next, Democrats and ...

November 14, 2022
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