Guest Commentary: Remembering History of Past Plagues
By Alan Hirsch Many people have mined the lessons from the 1918 Flu pandemic to understand the…
By Alan Hirsch Many people have mined the lessons from the 1918 Flu pandemic to understand the…
By Linh Nguyen CALIFORNIA — On Apr. 6, 2020, Assemblymember Rob Bonta from Oakland and 25 other…
By Shellsea Lomeli In efforts to release incarcerated people with a high risk of being affected by…
By Julietta Bisharyan NEW YORK CITY –– Manhattan District Attorney Candidate Janos Marton filed a Freedom of…
In 1996, the internet was brand new and a friend of my aunt hired me to fly…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Progressive reforms sought for decades – the dissolution…
It was a highly anticipated move by the California Judicial Council and while we captured some reaction…
By Nancy Martinez What will be the long-lasting effects of COVID-19 on the national criminal justice system?…
By Shellsea Lomeli In response to the health and economic crisis presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, a…
From the start the battle lines over COVID-19 have taken the shape of the political contours of…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Just as a Sacramento Public Defender Office motion,…
Eric Gonzalez was appointed the DA of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, in 2016 after Ken Thompson,…
By Lea Barrios PHILADELPHIA – District Attorney Larry Krasner and Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey released a statement…
California so far has avoided the fate of Italy, Spain and New York. Why? Social distancing and…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Cities in California – claiming they are already…
by Tia Will Assuming that most of you will not read the minutes of the first remotely…
When the council met just under two weeks ago using a Zoom format, the meeting was disrupted…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – In what could be described as a bold,…
There are no good reasons for the president to keep vulnerable people behind bars any longer. By…
The latest news out of New York is grim, but the situation on Rikers Island is grim…