Alameda County District Attorney Price Explains Use of ‘Justice Act’ to Attack ‘Racial Disparity’
By Yana Singhal OAKLAND, CA – Earlier this year, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office posted a…
Death Row Clemency Filings: Report Analysis of Louisiana’s Broken Death Penalty
By Rena Abdusalam BATON ROUGE, LA – The Capital Appeals Project, a nonprofit law firm located in…
New Jersey Bail Reform: Major Prison Population Praised but ACLU Charges ‘Racial Disparity’ Needs to Be Addressed
By Isabella Walker and Citlalli Florez NEWARK, NJ – The ACLU of New Jersey—which has argued State…
Sunday Commentary: Door Is Back Open for Davis to Consider Berkeley Ordinance
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – It is interesting—last week we had extensive discussions on reimagining…
San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Talks Criminal Justice Reform (Podcast)
Elected in November 2019 in San Francisco as a reformer, Chesa Boudin has been on the job…
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…
Report: African American Youths Five Times More Likely than Whites to Be Held
(From Press Release)-A new report from the Sentencing Project found that despite long-term declines in youth incarceration,…
Time to Address School Policing Issues
By Harold Jordan Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America…
Sunday Commentary: Report Finding 95% of Prosecutors Are White Punctuates Inequality in System
Last summer, following the death of Michael Brown, it was reported that while two-thirds of Ferguson residents…
Study: Shocking Racial Disparities in SF Courts
African-Americans in San Francisco are more likely to await trial behind bars than their white counterparts and…
