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.
Community organizing in Nevada’s Clark County helped judicial candidates “flip the bench” to challenge cash bail and mass incarceration.
In states that restored people’s voting rights, many public agencies aren’t doing enough to assist, and the pandemic slowed grassroots plans to pick up the slack.
With redistricting fast approaching, Nevada and Washington end prison gerrymandering, but reforms stall elsewhere.
Colorado and Nevada will now restore voting rights upon release from incarceration, amid nationwide efforts against disenfranchisement.
The latest on reform prospects in Arizona, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, and New York
But it will still retain a system that is harsh by national standards and will disenfranchise large numbers of residents.
In November, six states are holding referenda on whether to adopt “Marsy’s Law.”