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The Power of the Prosecutor: A Personal Account by Ashley Sawyer by Ashley Sawyer, Campaign for Smart Justice Consultant, ACLU of Vermont Have you ever watched an episode of “Law & Order”? The creators do an amazing job of dramatizing the court process. The characters playing the prosecutors are always …
Article • October 31, 2018 • from CLN November, 2018
Will Groundbreaking California Bail Reform Help or Hinder Defendants’ Likelihood of Pre-Trial Release? by Betty Nelander by Betty Nelander Gov. Jerry Brown hailed a sweeping cash bail elimination law in California as landmark, years-in-the-making legislation to fairly treat “rich and poor alike.” Whether it will keep more people out of …
New York, Faced With Millions in Payouts for Prosecutorial Misconduct, Becomes First State to Create Oversight Commission by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna New York Governor Mario Cuomo has signed a bill that many hope will rein in prosecutorial misconduct. New York, with 250 exonerations since 1989, has paid out …
Article • September 23, 2018 • from CLN October, 2018
New Jersey AG Intervenes in Possible Wrongful Conviction Case, Considers Reforms by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Newly appointed New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has directed his prosecutors to take over an investigation into the 1993 murder conviction of two men who might be innocent. He also formed a …
Article • September 20, 2018 • from CLN October, 2018
Prosecutors Use Their Power to Help Reform Criminal Justice by Prosecutors are using their power to reach beyond the courtroom to reform the country’s prison crisis and usually much more effectively and efficiently than lawmakers could do. Last fall, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner began working to reverse prosecutorial practices …
Publication • September 1, 2018
Inside the Prison Labor Strike, The KITE, 2018 Working  W Working ki to t Extend E t d Democracy D to t All   V Volume V l Volume 1, N 1 Number b 3 3 September  S S t b 2018 September 2018 INSIDE THE PRISON …
Article • August 20, 2018 • from CLN September, 2018
New Jersey AG Intervenes in Possible Wrongful Conviction Case, Considers Reforms by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Newly appointed New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has directed his prosecutors to take over an investigation into the 1993 murder conviction of two men who might be innocent. He also formed a …
Article • August 17, 2018 • from CLN September, 2018
What Some Prison Sentence Lengths Actually Reflect by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon When a criminal convictee is sentenced, the number of months or years assessed does not always mean the convictee will remain in prison for that entire time. Nearly all states and most other jurisdictions in the world …
Publication • August 1, 2018
The Changing State of Recidivism: Fewer People Going Back to Prison, PEW Research Center, 2018 METHODOLOGYI The Changing State of Recidivism: Fewer People Going Back to Prison Data show the number returning 3 years later is down by nearly a quarter Trends in recidivism were analyzed using the National Corrections …
Publication • August 1, 2018
Office of the Inspector General: Review of the Justice Department's Clemency Initiative, 2018 Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice OVERSIGHT INTEGRITY GUIDANCE Review of the Department’s Clemency Initiative Evaluation and Inspections Division 18-04 August 2018 Executive Summary Review of the Department’s Clemency Initiative Introduction Results in Brief …
Article • July 21, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Seattle to Toss Old Pot Convictions by Seattle’s mayor and city attorney announced plans in February 2018 to request court dismissal of all misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions obtained in city courts before the drug’s legalization in 2012. When the convictions are vacated or dismissed, they will disappear from the records …
Article • July 20, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Powerful District Attorney Lobbies Improperly Influence Law Making by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Around the nation, powerful lobbying groups composed of associations of prosecutors are influencing state legislatures to reject certain laws, regardless of how popular the proposed laws are with the electorate. In his January 2018 State of …
Article • July 20, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
State Attorney in Vermont Won’t Prosecute Misdemeanor Opioid Treatment Drug Cases by Betty Nelander by Betty Nelander One Vermont county is using the muscle of the law to help curb the deadly opioid epidemic. Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George announced that her office will no longer prosecute “any citations …
Article • June 16, 2018 • from CLN July, 2018
Alabama’s Most Populous County Reaches Bail Reform Settlement, But Problems Could Persist by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Jefferson County, the most populous county in Alabama, reached a Resolution Agreement on April 6 with the U.S. Department of Justice and the group Equal Justice Under Law in response to a …
Prison Activist Resource Center - PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory, 2018 PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory Core Volunteers Jessie Backer Greetings, Marka Ellertson Welcome to the June 2018 edition of PARC’s National Prisoner Resource Directory. We have updated information on organizations that are new to us, and on ones that …
The Impact of Proposition 47 on Crime and Recidivism, Public Policy Institute of California, 2018 The Impact of Proposition 47 on Crime and Recidivism JUNE 2018 Mia Bird, Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin, Steven Raphael, and Viet Nguyen with research support from Justin Goss PPIC.ORG © 2018 Public Policy Institute of …
Capitalizing on Criminal Justice, Eisha Jain, Duke Law Journal, 2018 JAIN IN PRINTER FINAL (DO NOT DELETE) 4/9/2018 2:41 PM CAPITALIZING ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE EISHA JAIN† ABSTRACT The U.S. criminal justice system “piles on.” It punishes too many for too long. Much criminal law scholarship focuses on the problem of …
The Impact of Early Representation: An Analysis of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Pre-Trial Release Unit, Alena Yarmosky, 2018 Ta uni POLICY BRIEF June 2018 Alena Yarmosky The Impact of Early Representation: An Analysis of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Pre-Trial Release Unit In October 2017, the San Francisco Public …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Report, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Jacob Kang-Brown, Oliver Hinds, Jasmine Heiss, and Olive Lu June 2018 From The Director The turn of the century marked a new direction for the nation’s prisons and jails: after three decades of …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Fact Sheet, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration After decades of continuous and unified growth across all states from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the landscape of U.S. incarceration fragmented into distinct trends. The last decade has been characterized …
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