Federal Prosecutions for the 21st Century
This new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
proposes modernizing one key aspect of the criminal justice system:
federal prosecutors. Prosecutors are in a uniquely powerful position to
bring change, since they make decisions about when and whether to bring
criminal charges, and make recommendations for sentencing. The report
proposes reorienting the way prosecutors’ “success” is measured around
three core goals: Reducing violent and serious crime, reducing prison
populations, and reducing recidivism. The mechanism for change would be a
shift in how attorneys' performance is assessed, to give prosecutors
incentives to focus on how their practices reduce crime in and improve
the communities they serve, instead of making their "success" simply a
measure of how many individuals they convict and send to prison.
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