Guest Commentary: 35 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year
By Sam McCann 17 people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths…
Pretrial Fairness Act Ends Cash Bail in Illinois
By Avery Redula and Kaveh Nasseri CHICAGO, IL – Illinois became the first state to eliminate the…
Justice Reform Group Opposes Los Angeles County Deal with Firm Linked to Law Enforcement
By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – The criminal justice reform group La Defensa this week,…
New York City Faces Losing Control of Rikers Island as Jail Fails to Meet Improvement Benchmarks Agreed to in Consent Decree
By Julie McCaffrey NEW YORK CITY, NY – Rikers Island faced judicial scrutiny earlier this year when…
New Report Identifies Inequities in Kansas Criminal Legal System
By Holly Werris KANSAS CITY, KS – A report produced by the Vera Institute of Justice has…
Guest Commentary: LA’s Notorious Men’s Central Jail Sees Three Deaths in One Week
There have been 29 deaths in Los Angeles County jails since the start of 2023, a result…
Guest Commentary: 26 People Have Died in LA County Jails This Year
By Sam McCann Eight people have died in Los Angeles County jails since June 1. Their deaths…
Guest Commentary: Black Drivers Were Pulled Over Less Often After a Minnesota County Changed Its Policies
By Sam McCann Police killed Philando Castile in July 2016 after pulling him over for driving with…
Guest Commentary: Society’s Problems Call for More Than Police
By Nicholas Turner People across the United States agree that police should not be called on to…
Four Counties Chosen to Join Movement to End Girls’ Incarceration in California
By Vaiva Utaraite SACRAMENTO, CA – After a competitive process, Los Angeles, Imperial, San Diego and Sacramento…
Vera Institute of Justice Unravels Financial Contradictions Links to Mass Incarceration
By Rena Abdusalam NEW YORK, NY – Researchers and advocates at the Vera Institute of Justice,…
Guest Commentary: The Pretrial Pressure Cooker
By DC Content note: Names have been changed to protect the identities of people whose experiences are…
Guest Commentary: What’s Ahead in the Fight for Justice and True Public Safety
By Nicholas Turner and Erica Bryant In 2023, the window of opportunity for true justice is open….
Pamela Price, and Other Reform-Minded Candidates for DA, Defy Doomsday Scenarios for Reform
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor When San Francisco voted to recall Chesa Boudin in June, many…
Guest Commentary: New York Could Become the First State to Provide the Right to Legal Representation in Immigration Court
By Nicholas Turner and Erica Bryant No one should have to face court proceedings in a language…
Guest Commentary: Reform Prosecutors Won Big in Midterms by Rejecting Scare Tactics
By Sam McCann Between Labor Day and the November 8th midterm elections, voters were bombarded with at…
Monday Morning Thoughts: The Red Wave Never Came, and Neither Did the Anti-CJR Wave
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It was looking bleak for criminal justice reform in June —Chesa…
Berkeley Councilmember Proposes Ordinance that Would Outlaw Discriminatory 911 Calls
By Gibran Khalil BERKELEY, CA – On October 11, 2022, Berkeley Councilmember Kate Harrison proposed an…
Gavin Newsom Signs SB 1008, making phone calls from California prisons free
By Gibran Khalil SACRAMENTO, CA – On Thursday Sept. 29, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1008,…
Guest Commentary: Yes, the New FBI Data Is Poor Quality – But We’ve Always Needed Better
By Leon Digard and Jacob Kang-Brown Before the FBI released its 2021 crime statistics last week, expectations…
