sentencing reform

Articles

June 24, 2025

Norfolk Reelects its Reform Prosecutor, Capping Years of Heated Debate

 Daniel Nichanian,
April 18, 2025

Another State Restricts Life Sentences for Young Adults

 Daniel Nichanian,
April 15, 2025

In North Carolina, Juvenile Lifers See a Pathway to Freedom

 Phillip Vance Smith II,
February 5, 2025

For Abuse Survivors, a New Path to Release from New Jersey Prisons

 Lauren Gill,
November 25, 2024

How California’s Embrace of a Tough-on-Crime Measure May Undo a Decade of Reform

 Victoria Valenzuela,
May 24, 2024

Oklahoma Gives Incarcerated Survivors of Domestic Violence a New Chance at Freedom

 Victoria Law,
March 12, 2024

Pennsylvania Reckons with Its Draconian Laws on Life Imprisonment

 Victoria Law,
February 2, 2024

A Wave of States Reduce “Death by Incarceration” for Young Adults 

 Daniel Nichanian,
January 24, 2024

Under the Shadow of the Extreme Case

 Piper French,
January 10, 2024

Louisiana Organizers Brace for Landry

 Piper French,
December 11, 2023

Inside the Urgent Campaign to Commute North Carolina’s Entire Death Row

 Kelan Lyons,
June 29, 2023

“Just an Opportunity to Come Home”

 Daniel Nichanian,
May 30, 2023

Sentencing Reforms for Domestic Abuse Survivors Derail in Oklahoma

 Victoria Law,
April 11, 2023

Domestic Violence Survivors Seek a Pathway Out of Louisiana Prisons

 Victoria Law,
April 15, 2022

Sentencing Reform Divides Charlotte DA Race

 Lauren Gill,
March 17, 2022

Waiting for a Second Look

 Will Lennon,
February 10, 2022

Longstanding Grievances Between Prosecutor and Public Defender Boil Over in California DA Race

 Piper French,
April 28, 2021

Some Manhattan D.A. Candidates Draw A Line Against Life in Prison Sentences

 Sam Mellins,
April 9, 2021

Oregon’s Tough-on-Crime D.A. Association Faces a Reckoning

 Piper French,
March 11, 2021

‘Life Sentences Are Death Sentences.’ How This D.A. Candidate Wants to Decarcerate Manhattan

 Daniel Nichanian,
December 18, 2020

How States Transformed Criminal Justice in 2020, and How They Fell Short

 Daniel Nichanian,
August 21, 2019

Governor’s Race Could Decide If Louisiana’s Prison Population Continues to Shrink

 Daniel Nichanian,
February 28, 2019

Reformers Target Life Imprisonment and Sentences of Life Without Parole

 Daniel Nichanian,
December 6, 2018

Looming Appointments Could Alter Florida Supreme Court’s Sentencing Outlook

 Daniel Nichanian,