The Oakland Unified School District’s restorative justice program has been recognized as a national model for school discipline policies. The program began in Oakland, California, schools in 2007 in collaboration with Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and has slowly expanded throughout the district. Now the program is facing budget cuts that could effectively gut it.

She touted her prosecutorial credentials when she announced her candidacy on Sunday, but how will her tough-on-crime history square with progressives?

An effort to make more police records public “looks like a hot mess.”

CNN’s “Town Hall” last week, featuring fast-rising Senator Kamala Harris, was moderately helpful in assessing the California freshman’s presidential candidacy, but far more useful in evaluating what television must do in the critically important 2020 race

Sen. Kamala Harris' record as a prosecutor comes into question now that she has formally announced her run for the presidency. Was Harris in fact the progressive prosecutor some say she is depicting herself to have been? Joy Reid and her panel discuss this, and more Democratic contenders for the 2020 presidential nomination.

Will Sen. Harris’s record as a prosecutor hurt her presidential chances given the democratic base’s leftward shift on criminal justice and civil liberties?

Before announcing her Presidential candidacy, Kamala Harris published “The Truths We Hold,” a memoir that serves to expand on her public persona and to explain how the part of the Democratic Party that she represents has changed.Illustration

When Sen. Kamala Harris seized the mantle of criminal justice reform in launching her 2020 Democratic presidential run, it bowled over Phelicia Jones, a prominent civil rights advocate in San Francisco.