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Preempting progress: States take aim at local prosecutors

Public Rights Project and LSSC (Local Solutions Support Center) co-published a new white paper examining the use of preemption to thwart criminal justice reform. This report examines how as local communities have called on prosecutors to use their discretion to embrace reform and a less carceral approach to criminal justice, states have intervened in an attempt to force prosecutors to continue tough-on-crime policies.

Preempting progress: States take aim at local prosecutors

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