What the Great Pushback Against Urban Progressives Is Really About
It’s not crime. BY HENRY GRABAR JUNE 06, 20221:51 PM San Francisco’s Tenderloin in March 2020. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters On Tuesday, voters in San Francisco recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a progressive prosecutor whom critics accused of allowing crime to...
Rethinking Prison Tourism
Many former prison sites draw on the spooky and salacious to entertain visitors. But some are having second thoughts. Visitors walked past cell blocks at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in June. AARON RICKETTS FOR THE MARSHALL PROJECT By HOPE CORRIGAN...
Illinois is routinely housing wards of the state in Chicago’s jail for kids
The state’s child welfare agency says it has nowhere else to put the children. Opponents call it cruel, and a civil rights violation. By Patrick Smith Illinois is routinely housing wards of the state in Chicago’s jail for kids When Andrea Lubelfeld took over a new job...
San Francisco Voters Just Ousted Their Reformist District Attorney
Chesa Boudin became the target of tough-on-crime critics. SAMANTHA MICHAELS San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin ponders a reporter's question at his recall campaign headquarters in San Francisco in May. Eric Risberg/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the...
Trial Diary: A Journalist Sits on a Baltimore Jury
Could 12 strangers agree on justice in Baltimore, a city riddled with killings and distrust of the police, in a shooting case where the victim was an actor on the legendary drama “The Wire”? by Alec MacGillis June 1, 5 a.m. EDT ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that...
San Diego Race Will Decide New Leadership For California’s Deadliest Jail System
The next sheriff will inherit dangerous jail conditions after the previous one resigned under a cloud of scandals. Kelly Davis | June 1, 2022 This year a state audit concluded that poor treatment and monitoring in San Diego County jails “likely contributed to...
Op-Ed: If criminal justice reform can’t survive in San Francisco, can it survive anywhere?
Voters’ fears may unseat reformer Chesa Boudin 18 months into his term as San Francisco D.A. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press) BY MIRIAM PAWEL JUNE 1, 2022 3 AM PT On its face, the effort to recall San Francisco Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin is a debate over how a...
Rethinking the State
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, it's worth reimagining the very foundations that sustain it. By Benjamin Levin May 26, 2022 Rethinking the State FUTURES Over the past century, a traditional story of criminal law emerged. In this account, criminal law...
Locking People Up Is No Way to Treat Mental Illness
If we stopped using prisons to warehouse psychiatric patients, we could heal people and save tax dollars. By Norm Ornstein and Steve Leifman Getty; The Atlantic MAY 30, 2022 SHARE About the authors: Norm Ornstein is an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise...
We’re Living Through the Backlash
Two years on, George Floyd’s death has culminated in stalled reforms and a reinvigorated, revanchist right. NOAH Y. KIM Assistant News and Engagement WriterBio | Follow Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star-Tribune/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones...