Khan Squares Off Directly against DA Rosen in Santa Clara Forum – Part 1
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Jose, CA – A forum sponsored by Afro UPRIS on…
Commentary: What’s with Solitary White Male Lawyers Ghostwriting Whole Criminal Justice Systems?
By Rory Fleming Most of the states with incarceration rates in the top 15 are deeply conservative…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 151: Dan Canon on Obergefell and Plea Bargains
Dan Canon is a civil rights attorney and a Professor at the Louis D. Brandeis School of…
Everyday Injustice Episode 149: Santa Clara Law Professor David Ball
This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Santa Clara Law Professor David Ball. Among the topics…
Alameda DA Candidates Meet in a Candidates Forum – Part Two
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Alameda County District Attorney candidates met on Wednesday in a…
Alameda DA Candidates Meet in a Candidates Forum – Part One
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Alameda County District Attorney Candidates met on Wednesday in a…
ACLU Reports Call on Sacramento and Merced DAs to Halt Costly, Ineffective Policies that Fuel Mass Incarceration
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Last week, ACLU of Northern California released…
Update: Legislative Black Caucus Joins NAACP in Demanding Investigation into Law Enforcement Misconduct
Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – A letter on Thursday from Betty Williams, president of the Greater…
SF’s Public Safety Needs Threaten Return to Criminalize and Incarceration Mentality, Charges ACLU
By Srimathi Kannan and Neha Malhi SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern…
Commentary: Bass Letter Shows How Quickly the Left Turned on Criminal Justice Reform
By David Greenwald Los Angeles, CA – In 2014, Naomi Murakawa wrote the book, How Liberals Built…
Guest Commentary: Tough-on-Crime Laws and Mass Incarceration Waste Tax Dollars and Don’t Make Us Any Safer
By Miriam Aroni Krinsky Churning people through jail and prison often leads to more crime You wouldn’t…
Monday Morning Thoughts: The Link Between Homelessness and Incarceration Shows Us a New Problem with the Housing Crisis
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor How much is the cost of housing driving problems like homelessness,…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 139: Kristin Henning and the Criminalization of Black Youth
Kristin Henning is a Georgetown Law Professor and a former public defender in DC. In her book,…
Experts Maintain Unvaccinated Incarcerated Pose COVID Threat to Safety Of General Public
By Neha Malhi NEW YORK, NY – With Omicron—the new COVID-19 variant—the U.S. is going to see…
Report: Thousands of Incarcerated People in California Are Serving Excessively Long Sentences and Could Be Safely Released
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA – A report released this month found that, despite…
Federal Bill Would Reform U.S. Clemency System, Address Mass Incarceration Crisis
By Carson Eschen WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Representatives Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Cori Bush (MO-01) and Hakeem Jeffries…
Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Is Not Dead Yet
By Rory Fleming On November 30, prominent Substack journalist and podcaster Adam Johnson made a number of…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 132: Former Miami Prosecutorial Candidate Melba Pearson
In 2020, Melba Pearson ran to attempt to unseat, unsuccessfully, the 27-year incumbent prosecutor of Miami-Dade County. …
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 129: New Orleans DA Jason Williams
It was once a poster child for things like wrongful convictions and the carceral state. But the…
Commentary: Obstructing Criminal Justice Reforms Makes Us All Less Safe
By Gil Garcetti, Ira Reiner and Miriam Aroni Krinsky In the 1980s and ‘90s, California embarked on…
