News & Commentary about Smart Justice


Jun 16, 2017
My Father’s Gun Charge Almost Ruined My Family. Fair Sentencing Saved It.

May 26, 2017
Why Jeff Sessions Is the Best Argument for Reducing Prosecutorial Power

May 12, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Has Just Doubled Down on the Immoral, Racist, and Counterproductive War on Drugs

May 11, 2017
Behind Many ‘Mom and Pop’ Bail Bonds Shops Is a Huge Insurance Corporation Out to Profit From Misery

May 9, 2017
Long-Awaited Public Defense Reform Comes to New York State

Apr 26, 2017
The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Is at the UN Tomorrow to Testify on the Horrific Human Rights Record of US Private Prison Companies

Apr 25, 2017
We’re Living in a Surveillance Society, So Why Do We Need Bail?

Apr 19, 2017
I Spent More Than 6 Years in Prison. Now I’m Deputy Director of the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥â€™s Campaign for Smart Justice.

Apr 17, 2017
The Entire Massachusetts Criminal Justice System Is Tainted, Not Just the Dookhan Convictions

Mar 31, 2017
Poor New Yorkers Get Lost in the State’s Broken Public Defense System