Sarah Lustbader

Sarah Lustbader, senior legal counsel, was previously senior program associate at the Vera Institute of Justice and a criminal defense attorney at The Bronx Defenders.

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Spotlight: Scalia Called Stevens’s Evolution ‘Arrogance.’ It was the Opposite.

Sarah Lustbader Jul 18, 2019

Spotlight: Ice Cream Licking, Corporate Negligence, And What Constitutes A Crime

Sarah Lustbader Jul 16, 2019

Biden’s tough-on-crime past: Were all Dems really like that?

Sarah Lustbader Jul 02, 2019

Spotlight: Biden and the Tough-on-Crime Election Fallacy

Sarah Lustbader

What if Justice Roberts gave criminal defendants do-overs like he did for the Trump administration?

Sarah Lustbader Jun 28, 2019

Spotlight: The Citizenship Question, the Supreme Court, and Who Deserves a Do-Over

Sarah Lustbader

Corrupt cops, lazy lawyers, and cowardly politicians: Kevin Cooper’s case exemplifies three and a half decades of systemic failures

Sarah Lustbader Jun 20, 2019

Spotlight: Kevin Cooper’s Case Exemplifies Decades of Systemic Failures

Sarah Lustbader

In Alabama, departing sheriffs destroy property, deplete funds, and (usually) face no consequences

Sarah Lustbader Jun 18, 2019

Spotlight: Departing Alabama Sheriffs Deplete Funds and (Usually) Face No Consequences

Sarah Lustbader

Linda Fairstein is canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ culture next?

Sarah Lustbader Jun 14, 2019

Spotlight: Linda Fairstein is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

Sarah Lustbader

Spotlight: De Blasio—The Circumstances of Layleen Polanco’s Death Shouldn’t Be So Perplexing

Sarah Lustbader Jun 13, 2019

Bill de Blasio seems perplexed about circumstances that led to a trans woman’s death at Rikers Island. He shouldn’t be.

Sarah Lustbader

When saving lives is illegal, something is wrong with the law. When humanitarians are prosecuted, something is wrong with law enforcement.

Sarah Lustbader Jun 11, 2019

Spotlight: Prosecuting Lifesavers Exposes Deep Problems With Laws and Their Enforcement

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Spotlight: ‘A New Wave of Prosecutorial Transparency’

Sarah Lustbader Jun 07, 2019

Spotlight: Incarcerated Women Helped Draft New York Law to Free Domestic Violence Survivors

Sarah Lustbader Jun 06, 2019

A law to help free domestic violence survivors, drafted by incarcerated women

Sarah Lustbader

Spotlight: Neighborhood Crime Apps Stoke Fears, Reinforce Racist Stereotypes, And Don’t Prevent Crime

Sarah Lustbader Jun 04, 2019

Neighborhood crime apps stoke fears, reinforce racist stereotypes, and trick people into performing police surveillance

Sarah Lustbader

Memorial Day shootings prompt calls for more police—but why?

Sarah Lustbader May 30, 2019

Baltimore police union’s tweet tells cops to ‘protect each other’ and reminds them that some children are ‘criminals’

Sarah Lustbader May 28, 2019

‘If you build it, they will come’: How jail beds drive incarceration

Sarah Lustbader May 22, 2019

Prosecutors become unlikely line of defense against abortion bans

Sarah Lustbader May 21, 2019

In domestic violence cases, prosecutors seek a way around the Sixth Amendment

Sarah Lustbader May 17, 2019

U.S. drug companies won’t help execute people, so the DOJ will allow prisons to buy from other countries

Sarah Lustbader May 16, 2019

Harvard professor loses post for defending an unpopular client

Sarah Lustbader May 14, 2019

What abolitionism looks like

Sarah Lustbader May 07, 2019

LAPD retreats from ‘predictive policing,’ for now

Sarah Lustbader May 02, 2019

From ‘civil death’ to ‘civic bonds’: There is no (good) reason prisoners can’t vote

Sarah Lustbader Apr 30, 2019

Common Bails Out a Stranger

Sarah Lustbader Oct 10, 2018