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9/30/2019 2 Comments

Rhetoric, Not Reform: Prosecutors & Pretrial Practices in Suffolk, Middlesex, and Berkshire Counties

There’s a lot of talk about progressive prosecutors, good prosecutors, reform-minded prosecutors. As an abolitionist project, we care about how people are treated in court and, ultimately, eliminating the prosecuting office.

We also want to do everything we can to make sure people are treated better right now. We have paid special attention to the Massachusetts counties with ‘reformers’ in office, to see whether their campaign promises and office policies result in actual decarceration, eliminate racial disparities, or keep more people out of the system entirely.

This report offers our analysis of prosecutor-led “pretrial reform” in Suffolk, Middlesex, and Berkshire Counties, based on publicly available data.

Prosecutors in Massachusetts may talk about reform and decarceration, but the limited available data suggest their practices don’t live up to their rhetoric.

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9/25/2019 3 Comments

New Resource: Abolitionist Principles & Campaign Strategies for Prosecutor Organizing

The organizations that came together to develop this framework were Community Justice Exchange, Court Watch MA, Families for Justice as Healing, Project NIA, and Survived and Punished NY.

Thanks to Fahd Ahmed, Amna Akbar, Erin Miles Cloud, Lily Fahsi-Haskell, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, Lisa Sangoi, Dean Spade and others for reviewing and providing critical feedback.
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The following guide can be downloaded as a PDF document here.
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