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 social justice articles involving criminal justice reform
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…
VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: An Experience of Grief
by Mark Daigre In The Waste Land T.S. Eliot put forth that April is the cruelest month….
CIELO Denounces Federal, Local Governments for Anti-Migration policies
By Rena Abdusalam LOS ANGELES, CA – Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), an Indigenous women-led non-profit organization…
ACLU Files Amicus Brief Supporting Minimum Wage for Incarcerated Workers
By Sunny Zhou OAKLAND, CA – The ACLU’s National Prison Project, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California…
Guest Commentary: Children Suffer When Parents Are Imprisoned
By Erica Bryant Imprisoning parents hurts children. It increases children’s likelihood of special education placement, being held…
Looking Back: Conviction – The Movie
By Jeffrey Deskovic “Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist…
VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: The Vanguard of Prison Publishing
By D. Razor Babb Thirty years inside this nation’s penitentiaries have provided exposure to a broad spectrum…
Despite Los Angeles Traffic Carnage, Cops May Have Traffic Role Taken Away as Justice Reformers Wish
By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – About 312 people were killed in traffic collisions in…
Former NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Paying for Autopsies for Police Related Deaths
By The Vanguard Staff ATLANTA, GA – Former NFL star quarterback Colin Kaepernick—in effect, blackballed because he…
Colorado Lawmakers Sunset Criminal Justice Commission for Holding Back Reform
By The Vanguard Staff DENVER, CO – Criminal justice reform-minded lawmakers shut down a 30-member Colorado Commission…
Essie Justice Group, Alameda Public Defender, Assemblymember Call for Attention to Mass Incarceration of Black Women at Oakland ‘National Bail Out’ Rally
By Caleigh Carlisle OAKLAND, CA ‒ The Essie Justice Group, Alameda County Chief Public Defender Brendon Woods,…
VANGUARD INCARCERATED PRESS: Critical Accountability — Self-Censorship and the Role of Critique in Incarcerated Writing
By Angie D. Gordon The Vanguard Incarcerated Press claims as its credo a commitment to the promotion…
