Progressive Prosecutor Rollins Resigns as Massachusetts U.S. Attorney After Being Charged with Misconduct by DOJ
By The Vanguard Staff BOSTON, MA – Rachael Rollins, a progressive prosecutor appointed by President Joe Biden…
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Walgreens San Francisco’s Bad Few Weeks – Security Guard Kills Trans Organizer, Now City Announces $230 Million Opioid Settlement
By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Walgreens is having a bad few weeks – the…
Racist, Discriminatory Lending Class Action Suit Filed against Wells Fargo by Civil Rights Lawyers
By Sophia Barberini SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A team of attorneys and former San Francisco Mayor Willie…
ACLU Applauds U.S. Supreme Court’s Unanimous Decisions Protecting Digital Free Speech
By Cheyenne Galloway WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday applauded the unanimous decisions by…
VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: Advice from the Most Trusted Man in America – ‘The ION Principle’
by D. Razor Babb Every year network brass and broadcast elite gather on Miami Beach for an…
Prosecutor Discipline Reform Group Releases Videos from Law Prof and Wrongfully Convicted to Punctuate Recent Prosecutorial Misconduct in California Report
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO, CA – A man wrongly convicted because of alleged…
Racial and Gender Disparities in ‘21 California Police Stops Report: Black People Stopped at Higher Rate, ‘Hispanics’ Stopped More Often
By Cheyenne Galloway BERKELY, CA – Steven Raphael, a co-author of “By the Numbers,” produced by the…
REPORT: Racial, Ethnic Disparities in Youth Incarceration and Sentencing Persist Despite Overall Youth Offending Decrease
By Audrey Sawyer WASHINGTON, DC – A recent report, “Youth Justice By The Numbers,” shows a sharp…
Los Angeles Superior Court Grants Injunction to End Money Bail for Low-Level, Non-Violent Offenses in LA County Jail
By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – People arrested in low-level, non-violent offenses will not be…
San Francisco Community Protests after SF District Attorney Announces No Charges against Walgreens Security Guard for Killing Unarmed Banko Brown
By Crescenzo Vellucci The Davis Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Embattled San Francisco District Attorney…
Progressive St. Louis Prosecutor Abruptly Resigns Amid Chaos
By The Vanguard Staff ST. LOUIS, MO – Progressive St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner abruptly resigned…
SF Officials Hail Measure Allowing Millions in State – Including Hundreds of Thousands in SF Bay Area – to Expunge Old Convictions from Their Records
By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area—about…
VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: Beauty from Within
by Armando López “You can find beauty all around you; you just have to look within.” These…
California Man Serving Life Sentence Released after Revealed That Witness Statements Were Coerced
By Robert J Hansen A California man serving life with the possibility of parole was released from…
VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: First Amendment Petition and Open Letter to the Supreme Court of the United States
By James S. Kor Re: 1) Questions about legitimacy and integrity of the Court 2) Uniformity of…
‘Myths and Realities’: Policymakers Must Avoid Temptation to ‘Oversimplify’ Crime Stats, Study Concludes
By The Vanguard Staff NEW YORK, NY – Although the Covid-19 pandemic complicated things, “Now more than…
Missouri Tightens Anti-Transgender Restrictions Following Attorney General’s Emergency Rule
By Julie McCaffrey JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Two anti-transgender bills were passed by Missouri legislators last week,…
Los Angeles Editorial Board Argues Harsher Penalties for Fentanyl Abuse Will Not Stop Crisis, Referencing CA Legislation
By Brinda Kalita LOS ANGELES, CA- In an opinion article published in the Los Angeles Times this…
Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner from Killing a Man
Police Investigators Never Even Asked about the Footage by Mike Hayes for ProPublica, and Eric Umansky In…
New York Cop Corruption Probe Leads to 27 Vacated Convictions and Charges – But No Officers Criminally Charged
By The Vanguard Staff WHITE PLAINS, NY – The work of the Conviction Review Unit here at…
