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RED ALERT. Philadelphia's DA just issued the most revolutionary guiding document ever written from someone working INSIDE of America's justice system. It is groundbreaking. It represents the single biggest policy shift in criminal justice history.https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/larry-krasner-philadelphia-da/ …
I want you to see the groundbreaking 5 page policy document that Larry Krasner sent out to his team. Here's Page 5. Here is where Krasner destroys the outrageous probation lengths that trapped Meek Mill & 44,000 others in Philadelphia. FULL STORY: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/larry-krasner-philadelphia-da/ …pic.twitter.com/hv08qL3TmP
The stuff on weed and prostitution enforcement are excellent. Some of the other The idea that ADA should take some sort of holistic approach during sentencing seems crazy. Might as well just co-sign on the defense recommended sentencing.
Why does a cost/benefit analysis of incarceration seem like to much to ask of the party recommending incarceration? Should prosecutors be judged on the amount of time they successfully remove from people’s lives?
The job of a defense attorney is to minimize harm to their client, the defendant. The job of a prosecutor is to minimize harm to their client, the citizens. It is not to maximize harm to the defendant.
How is a prosecutor not doing their job, on behalf of the citizen, by seeking maximum punishment for a defendant? The punishment is codified after all.
It comes down to a basic question of what the corrections system is for: decreasing crime (and thus decreasing harm to the people), or punishing offenders. What is the benefit to the people in maximizing punishment, when imprisoning people is so obviously expensive?
Well that is a policy question for lawmakers and voters. It doesn't fall to the ADA to take that in to account. Discretion has always been a problem in law enforcement. I'm not convinced that discretion tilted toward the defendant is any more beneficial.
Lawmakers always vote for increased sentencing; they posture as tough guys to the voters while the carceral state benefits from more forced labor. Discretion is a necessary element. Sentencing is variable by design, and laws removing that have undesirable effects.
When discretion is taken out of the equation then we see movement on unjust laws. 3 strikes, mandatory minimums, crack vs coke laws are the perfect example. People started to change their minds when white people and people the know were affected.
Amazing.
We need more people like this. San Diego has an opportunity on June 5, 2018 to elect a similar DA, @JonesWright4DA + new community Sheriff @MyersSD30.
San Diego needs this duo to transform our justice system to be, well, just 
It’s difficult to understand how anyone can look at these policy reforms, consider the state of probation currently in place, and NOT see the obvious injustice and massive corruption potential of private prison systems. Unless, of course, one benefits financially from them.
How do you feel about 1 https://bit.ly/2I0bttN or 2 https://bit.ly/2GgCUm1
Free Meek
In theory looks promising. Is there a vote that has to move this next??
This is all internal prosecutorial policy — the prosecutors report to the district attorney, so it’s official, but that doesn’t make it permanent or change what one can be arrested for. People need to report on the good these policies do and encourage similar reform elsewhere.
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