Yang Song fell four stories onto a sidewalk in Flushing, Queens on the night of November 25th. An officer with the New York City Police Department accompanied her, unconscious, to New York Presbyterian Hospital where doctors placed her on a respirator. They worked for hours: the 35 units of blood they transfused did not take, given the severity of her injuries from the thirty foot fall.

A new report from The Sentencing Project offers a blueprint for putting an end to a deadly epidemic.

Once again, police are vilifying kids.

Alameda County Superior Court reversed license suspensions for 54,000 people who were punished for their inability to pay fines.

Fifteen men had their tainted convictions vacated by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office, but this isn’t the norm when it comes to prosecutors.

“Kiss your boyfriend goodbye.”

Dispatches is our series from organizers, attorneys, officials, and others working at the frontlines of local criminal justice reform.

Rallies & petitions grow for the rapper Meek Mill
I want to preface what I’m about to say by first making it clear that I’m not a Meek Mill fan.

The prosecutor rarely holds officers accountable.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey chose not to prosecute officer

But the police chief recommends the officers’ dismissal

Phil Murphy has promised marijuana legalization, end of cash bail and will look at ending minimum mandatory sentences

Dispatches is our series from organizers, attorneys, officials, and others working at the frontlines of local criminal justice reform.

Criminal charges are absent from 85 percent of all forfeiture cases in the city.

Her case says a lot about prosecutorial discretion.

The decision was unanimous.