The vice president and former San Francisco district attorney presents her vision for smart criminal justice and public safety. Before she became the vice presi

The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s, but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Bet

Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to publ

A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of

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