As Covid-19 Continues to Impact Criminal Legal System, Advocates Discuss Radical Alternatives
By Tiffany Devlin As the Covid-19 pandemic heavily impacted jails, prisons, and courts across the United…
By Tiffany Devlin As the Covid-19 pandemic heavily impacted jails, prisons, and courts across the United…
(Editor’s note: this is the third of six candidate surveys of the Davis City Council, Yolo Supervisor,…
Everyday Injustice speaks to Brendon Woods, the chief Public Defender in Alameda County, the only Black Chief…
By Julietta Bisharyan LOS ANGELES – With election day looming, longtime, “tough-on-crime” District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced…
by Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Roy L. Austin, Jr As the Republican National Convention plays out this…
Pima County, AZ – After 40 years of the prosecutor’s office in Pima County being under the…
By Jess Taylor LOS ANGELES – Tensions have drastically risen in the U.S. since the killing of…
by Kelsea Valerio SACRAMENTO- Former Public Defender and DA Candidate Rachal Rossi was hard hitting on Tuesday…
By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider MADISON—Nine candidates running for two Wisconsin State Senate seats took part in a forum…
By Linh Nguyen SANTA CLARA – Nearly two months after the killing of George Floyd, Santa Clara…
By Julietta Bisharyan LOS ANGELES – Inspired by the advocacy of powerful grassroots groups, five members…
The California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) announced an expansion to their 2020 legislative package and called for…
By Ayanna Gandhi NORTH CAROLINA – North Carolina state executive leadership—from the state supreme court chief justice…
While concerns about the conditions of prisons and jails were aired prior to the current pandemic, COVID-19…
by Rory Fleming In an attempt to unite the centrist and progressive wings of the Democratic Party,…
By Shellsea Lomeli NEW YORK – The Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) along with several…
Melissa Mark-Viverito, born in Puerto Rico, has been a councilmember in New York City, representing areas of…
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal justice reformers have been hustling to get people out…
Vincent Schiraldi is a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia School of Social Work and co-Director of…
In 1981, Jodie Sinclair was a journalist visiting the Angola Prison in Louisiana to do a story…