All of the Above: How Prosecutors Can Help End Mass Incarceration

Date:  07-01-2024 "Prosecutors alone won't end mass incarceration. But their interventions can mean the world to people staring down the many harms of criminalization

From Inquest: Premal Dharia writes: I'm grateful to the five contributors who graciously wrote such thoughtful responses to the short essay by James Forman, Jr., Maria Hawilo, and me, adapted from our forthcoming book Dismantling Mass Incarceration. I’m encouraged that people with such depth of experience agree that taking apart our system of mass incarceration requires grappling with the question of progressive prosecutors, though we may disagree about exactly what that will mean about their role in the long term. Our short essay was framed around a core question: Can prosecutors contribute to dismantling mass incarceration? Bennett Capers, a former federal prosecutor of almost ten years, offers an evocative string of decidedly not-optimistic “maybes.” Continue reading here.