Something about that headline is very very Voxy, but this article is a good intro if you haven\u2019t been following this aspect of the situation:<\/p>\n
\u2026A prosecutor is also often the only public official standing between a defendant and prison time. More than 90 percent<\/a> of criminal convictions are resolved through a plea agreement, meaning only prosecutors and defendants \u2014 not judges and juries \u2014 have almost all the say in a great majority of cases that result in incarceration or some other punishment.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have also been at the center of police killing investigations over the past year following the deaths of Freddie Gray<\/a> in Baltimore, Eric Garner<\/a> in New York City, and Brown in Ferguson, among others. It was a prosecutor \u2014 Baltimore City State\u2019s Attorney Marilyn Mosby<\/a> \u2014 who decided to file charges against the six officers involved in Gray\u2019s death. It was two prosecutors who guided the grand juries<\/a> that decided not to file charges against the officers involved in Brown and Garner\u2019s deaths, with no one<\/em> else able to dictate how prosecutors should run the hearings.<\/p>\n
Despite all of these powers, voters and lawmakers very rarely force prosecutors answer for their records \u2014 even as they play a key role in perpetuating the kind of mass incarceration that criminal justice reformers now want to end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
more<\/a>\u2013one caveat is that I would question any \u201creform\u201d which calls for more funding for prosecutors\u2019 offices, even if that money is supposed to be for data collection. The \u201cthey\u2019re bad because they\u2019re underfunded!\u201d argument, which you get a lot from liberals who aren\u2019t far enough left on criminal-justice, seems like such a primrose path to more<\/em> vested interests in criminalization, not less. \u201cMy job depends on my neighbors being arrested\u201d = not something I want more of. And bills which start out as \u201cthis money is for data collection\u201d can easily accrue other fun uses for your money. (Also I\u2019m not sure there will never be enough data<\/a> to convince most people into or out of mercy.) But anyway this Vox thing is well worth your time.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Something about that headline is very very Voxy, but this article is a good intro if you haven\u2019t been following this aspect of the situation: \u2026A prosecutor is also often the only public official standing between a defendant and prison time. More than 90 percent of criminal convictions are resolved through a plea agreement, meaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,106,107,51,234],"class_list":["post-9718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse-of-power-comes-as-no-surprise","tag-no-more-cotton-pickin-prisons","tag-prayers-to-st-joseph-cafasso","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states","tag-the-war-on-some-drugs"],"yoast_head":"\n
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