Aug 22, 2017
ABA Journal I’ve never personally thought about burning my house down while inside, but I’d be lying if I said I’d ever worked myself close to the edge of exhaustion. We all contemplate the line between career and everything else”— I’ve always tried my best to balance...
Aug 21, 2017
For anyone who cares about transforming America’s criminal justice system, pivotal elections are fast approaching. It’s not the congressional elections we are talking about, though — it’s the more than 1,000 local prosecutors that will soon be up for election in...
Aug 18, 2017
The Crime Report 7/20/17 In our nation’s expanding discussion about eliminating mass incarceration, advocates, researchers and the media are missing a major contributor to incarcerated populations and a partial deprivation of liberty in its own right. Mass supervision...
Aug 14, 2017
WSJ July 23, 2017 The legal front widening against makers of opioid painkillers has something in common with landmark tobacco litigation of the 1990s: attorney Mike Moore. As Mississippi’s attorney general in 1994, Mr. Moore filed the first state lawsuit against...
Aug 11, 2017
An estimated 10,000 people will avoid fines, jail time, and severe collateral consequences including loss of employment and housing that accompany arrest and misdemeanor convictions due to a policy shift announced by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office this...