Our movement is winning.
Every time we hold prosecutors accountable, we are transforming our criminal justice system and building power for our communities.
The prosecutor accountability movement has developed a winning approach to ending the most unjust, unconstitutional, destructive and racist practices of prosecutors: money bail, over-charging, over-sentencing, over-policing, the drug war, attacking immigrants, sending our kids to adult prisons and keeping secrets about what’s really happening in their offices and in police departments.
We are making real change.
Success Stories
Read about just a few of the communities that have held their prosecutors accountable and changed their practices.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The People vs. The Criminalization of Pregnancy
With Louisana voters poised to approve a cruel abortion ban, advocates took action to demand that candidates for the New Orleans district attorney protect the freedom and dignity of all pregnant people.
Dallas, Texas
The People vs. The Corporate Bail Industry
Activists in Dallas recently exposed their prosecutor, Faith Johnson, for taking money from the for-profit bail industry. Now, communities are demanding that she return her corporate money, take the side of the people—not profits—and use the power of her office to finally end money bail.
Chicago, Illinois
The People vs. Police Cover-Ups
In 2016, the people of Chicago united to hold State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez accountable.
Orlando, Florida
The People vs. The Death Penalty
In 2016, running on a reform platform, Aramis Ayala become the first Black State’s Attorney in Florida, and the first woman to hold that position in Florida’s ninth circuit court district, which includes Orlando.
Greenville, North Carolina
The People vs. False Convictions
Organizers and community members created a public outcry against their prosecutor, Kimberly Robb, as part of a strategy to win the release of Dontae Sharpe, who has been falsely convicted of murder.
Our criminal justice system is racist, violent and deeply unjust. It targets the people we love and the communities we live in. Its injustices makes us feel pain, anger and outrage. All the time.
We see Black, Brown and Native people brutalized and murdered by police. We see jails and prisons steal the future of the people we love. We see corporations drain our families of their wealth and resources.
We also see our community’s capacity for love, joy and power. We have realized that if we get organized and mobilized—and trust one another—we can end mass incarceration and police violence and take control of our communities. It begins with prosecutors, the single most influential people in the system.
We are demanding that prosecutors across the country change their policies and practices. And we're winning.