John R. Lott Jr. is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. Until January, he was the senior adviser for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal ...

The recognition that prosecutors were a primary cause of mass incarceration has spawned a movement for progressive prosecutors. While exactly what it means to be a progressive prosecutor is far from ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In Oregon’s Multnomah ...

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. When Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in September that she ...

Bragg, a progressive prosecutor, has seen both high-profile wins and dismissals during his firm term, including as the only prosecutor to secure a criminal conviction against President Donald Trump.

Charles "Cully" Stimson is the deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the manager of the National Security Law Program, a senior legal fellow, and a senior ...

Fourteen months into her tenure as felony prosecutor, Katherine West wanted Travis County District Attorney José Garza to know exactly why she was resigning. In her last act on her final day, she ...

Chesa Boudin’s election as San Francisco’s district attorney, coupled with his predecessor George Gascón’s challenge to Los Angeles County incumbent prosecutor Jackie Lacey, puts California on the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Progressive stalwart Larry Krasner has won Philadelphia’s Democratic primary election Tuesday to continue serving as district attorney after withstanding an impeachment attempt and ...

Zohran Mamdani, the progressive standard-bearer who could become New York City’s next mayor after Tuesday’s election, faces a public-safety trap that has entangled progressives nationwide: Voters want ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Centrist district ...