Red Justice in a Blue State Oregon has one of the worst criminal justice systems in the country. These prosecutors are largely to blame. Slate Magazine Robert J. Smith Here’s a riddle: What state incarcerates a higher percentage of its black population than Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana? I’ll bet you didn’t guess Oregon. Indeed, the Beaver
Are Prosecutors the Key to Justice Reform? Given their autonomy—only if they want to be. The Atlantic Juleyka Lantigua-Williams A consensus is building around the need to seriously rethink the role of the prosecutor in the administration of justice. Power dynamics are unbalanced, sentencing guidelines are outdated, and old-fashioned human biases persist. And prosecutors—singularly independent
The prosecutor: the most powerful person in the room As Multnomah County grapples with widespread inequities in its criminal justice system, heads turn toward the D.A. by Emily Green | 21 Apr 2016 Prosecutors wield a tremendous amount of power in the courtroom, and in an effort to keep it that way, they systematically block