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The Manhattan DA candidate makes his case that more incarceration does not bolster public safety, one week from the Democratic primary.
Virginia’s primaries on Tuesday saw Ramin Fatehi clinch the Democratic nomination for Commonwealth Attorney in Norfolk, the site of a major showdown over reform in 2019. He is unchallenged in November.
Progressive gains in Philadelphia’s primaries for judge and DA showcase a movement intent on taking over broader swaths of the criminal legal system.
From a historic DA race to judge candidates against mass incarceration, these elections could reshape the criminal legal system.
Time is running out for the state Senate to advance a bill repealing the death penalty. Two influential Democratic senators also work as prosecutors, and the state’s DA association is fighting the reform.
Eliza Orlins, who is running in the June 22 primary, lays out how she would overhaul the “prosecutorial-industrial complex.”
Tarra Simmons lays out why she championed a new law that restores voting rights to people on probation and parole once she joined Washington’s state legislature.
The Appeal: Political Report’s April 2 newsletter
People with felony convictions who aren’t in prison can now vote. State elections could bring further progress or a sharp retreat.
The Appeal: Political Report’s March 25 newsletter
An emboldened progressive majority on Washington State’s highest court struck down a law that criminalized drug possession and expanded restrictions on life without parole.
The Appeal: Political Report’s March 11 newsletter
Dan Quart makes the case for addressing the “systemic breakdown” in New York’s prisons and jails with shorter sentences, ending cash bail, and other reforms.
The Appeal: Political Report’s March 4 newsletter
The Appeal: Political Report’s February 25 newsletter
A hard-fought reform will stop the state from distorting political power. But it won’t take effect for a long time.
The Appeal: Political Report’s February 18 newsletter
The Appeal: Political Report’s February 11 newsletter
Tahanie Aboushi discusses her newly expanded proposal of not prosecuting offenses that criminalize poverty, mental health issues, and substance use, and reducing incarceration for all cases.
The Appeal: Political Report’s Feb. 4 newsletter
The Appeal: Political Report’s January 28 newsletter.
The Appeal: Political Report’s January 21 newsletter
DA, sheriff, and mayoral elections will present new openings to upend mass incarceration, from Manhattan and Philadelphia down to Virginia.
“We now have hope that our loved ones and family members will someday come home to us,” one advocate said of the new law.
This year of crises, revisited: Nearly 90 state-level bills and initiatives. 16 themes. 7 maps.
Two more anti-death penalty DAs were elected last week, and the new Los Angeles DA confirmed he would review past sentences.
Officials in a New Jersey county voted last week to renew a lucrative contract with ICE and continue detaining immigrants.
Voters in populous Georgia and South Carolina counties elected sheriffs who ran on ending contracts with ICE.
New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, among other states, are electing many of their prosecutors and sheriffs in 2021. Here is a masterlist and calendar of what to expect.
Voters elected new sheriffs and DAs who’ve vowed to challenge mass incarceration and ICE, and they approved initiatives to curtail drug criminalization and expand voting rights.
Proposition 17 will enable people who are currently on parole to vote. It’s the latest in a wave of nationwide reforms that have narrowed or ended felony disenfranchisement.
Wins by José Garza and Monique Worrell add to a series of victories for criminal justice reformers this year.
Today in the Political Report newsletter Oct. 29, 2020: The 2020 elections are five days away, and today we are bringing you new tools and resources to follow the local politics of criminal justice and mass incarceration next week. A new interactive guide to the 2020 elections that will shape criminal justice Also today: […]
These are the key local elections where criminal justice reform is on the line next month, around the country.
In many places that have long helped arrest and detain immigrants, voters will decide the fate of local partnerships with ICE, possibly dealing a series of blows to the agency.
Eliseo Santana, running for sheriff in Florida’s Pinellas County, wants to end collaboration with ICE, reduce arrests, and shift some funds toward health services.
In four populous districts with open prosecutor elections, debates center on issues such as drug policy, jail capacity, and police impunity.
In a Q&A, Ben Pogue, who is running to be the chief prosecutor of South Carolina’s Ninth Circuit, discusses how he would confront racial injustice.
This DeKalb County attorney says that fighting mass incarceration will make people safer than President Trump’s “law and order” messaging.
Most members of the state’s congressional delegation now say they support restoring voting rights to incarcerated people. Will Tuesday’s primaries elect more proponents?