Leniency Shown to Paul Manafort Should Be the Norm for Everyone
By Udi Ofer Last week, Americans got a front row seat to the two systems of justice…
Court Fines and Fees Are Literally Trapping Poor People in the System for Life
When you think of pressing criminal justice reform issues you may think of wrongful convictions, over-prosecution, the…
Sunday Commentary: A New Era of Reform DA’s Began This Week
This week I had an interesting conversation with a man who had lost in an effort to…
Important Civil Rights Battles Were Won in the 115th Congress
By Brian Tashman The past two years have been challenging times, as we have witnessed attacks on…
Bipartisan Sentencing Reductions Pass Overwhelmingly in the US Senate
Real Criminal Justice Reform Happened Under Trump in a Bipartisan and Most Unlikely Fashion It may end…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform
Since July, the American Conservative has an ongoing series of currently 12 articles in collaboration with the…
Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind
Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform…
PPIC Report Finds Arrest Rates Plummet to Historic Lows in California
While Disparities Have Narrowed, Large Gaps Remain Between African Americans and Whites Crime and policing have been…
In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy’s Law Gains Ground Nationwide
By Jeanne Hruska and Holly Welborn Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of…
Guest Commentary: Prop 47 Spares Offenders from Prison, but County Jail May Be Worse
By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the people…
Probation System Squeezes the Poor and Feeds Mass Incarceration
By Andrea Young Charles “Skip” Eckartz, a 63-year-old disabled veteran, and his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Eckartz, were…
Senator Makes A Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform
While there has been bipartisan support at times for criminal justice reform, for the most part it…
Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”
More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in…
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Agenda for the New Congress
By Gabriela Meléndez Olivera This week’s midterms should send a strong message to the political establishment that…
Tuesday Big Win for Criminal Justice Reform Ballot Initiatives
By Udi Ofer Wednesday morning I woke up in a better America when it comes to criminal justice…
Sunday Commentary: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform
During the district attorney election some of the most fascinating conversation was not on the race itself…
Commentary: DA’s Race Better Open Some Eyes
Johansson was Underfunded and Disadvantaged from the Start but Nearly Knocked Off Reisig Yolo County released the…
Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Fall Short in California
An article by the Appeal points out that, while there was a statewide push for criminal justice…
Johansson Claims Victory Even Though His Electoral Quest Falls Short
If we had predicted that Dean Johansson would finish Election Day trailing 54-46 and by just 2037…
My View: Local Paper Buys Into Progressive DA Argument
The Davis Enterprise this week endorsed Jeff Reisig for district attorney. Really, there is no surprise there. …
