The Vera Institute of Justice launched its Motion for Justice campaign, which convenes prosecutors’ offices and system-impacted communities to pilot or expand community-centered diversion programs designed to promote racial equity and reduce mass incarceration.
Fair and Just Prosecution is urging prosecutors to support hospital-based violence intervention programs, which have been proven to reduce repeat violent injury and retaliatory violence, and to adopt policies that protect patients’ rights and limit law enforcement practices that can undermine trauma-informed care.
The Sentencing Project report finds that 25 states have passed sentence review measures this year, allowing courts to reconsider extreme sentences, in contrast to the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back criminal justice reform.
The Vanguard has deployed interns to monitor and report on court proceedings in San Francisco, uncovering examples of overcharging, racial disparities, and excessive bail, and is seeking to expand this model statewide and nationally to create transparency and accountability in the criminal legal system.
The Vanguard has documented the everyday injustices that occur in America’s courtrooms, such as overcharging, racial disparities, excessive bail, and prosecutorial misconduct, which often go unnoticed by the mainstream media due to lack of coverage and oversight.
A Suffolk County man faces a second-degree assault charge for allegedly stabbing his partner in the forearm with a kitchen knife during a June 22 altercation, and was released on $10,000 cash or $30,000 bond with a refrain-from order of protection.
Oregon counties have diverted taxpayer-funded grants intended for addiction recovery services to cover expenses for prosecutors and law enforcement, raising concerns about the effectiveness of the state’s new deflection program and the oversight of the grants.
LOS ANGELES, CA – A report by the Superior Court of Los Angeles County found that replacing…
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlights the need for increased data transparency, racial equity, and diversion from incarceration in the US criminal legal system.
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