Pennsylvania

From a historic DA race to judge candidates against mass incarceration, these elections could reshape the criminal legal system.

Mik Pappas, elected judge in 2017 with the support of the local DSA, is now running for higher office as part of a slate that wants to change the legal system in Allegheny County.

Grassroots groups are backing a slate of judge candidates in the May 18 primary. If elected, they could curb bail, high sentences, and other drivers of mass incarceration.

Lisa Middleman is challenging Allegheny County DA Stephen Zappala in November. DAs should be “reducing mass incarceration and creating equity,” she told the Political Report.

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Philadelphia ousts its sheriff. The Allegheny County DA wins the Democratic primary.

An incumbent sheriff faces three challengers in the Democratic primary.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala faces Turahn Jenkins, his first opponent in two decades, on Tuesday.

Turahn Jenkins explains the policies he would implement if he were elected district attorney in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh Allegheny County’s longtime District Attorney Stephen Zappala will face Turahn Jenkins, the county’s former chief public defender, in the May 21 Democratic primary. This is Zappala’s first contested election since 1999. Jenkins, who was […]

Pennsylania has country’s second-highest rate of people under correctional control, and the 2019 DA elections provide opportunities for reform advocates.

Pennsylvania holds 49 elections for district attorney in 2019. On this page, you can find a masterlist of the candidates who filed by the March deadline.

Krasner limited monetary payments as a condition for pretrial release. A new study finds that this had no ill effect on court attendance or recidivism.

The county’s first deputy DA and chief public defender are running in the May 21 primary.

As a growing number of reformers run as prosecutors, the PDAA’s public role and rhetoric don’t bear significant traces of these changes.

Stephen Zappala draws first challenger since 1999.