Exploring monkeypox in our most marginalized communities, we chat with Homer Venters about that virus in prisons and jails. Homer Venters is a physician and epidemiologist, and was chief medical officer at the notorious New York jail Rikers Island. He is also the author of Life and Death in Rikers Island. His most recent article … Continued

We’re going deep with former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin – talking about the political forces that shaped his life, becoming a “progressive prosecutor”, the GOP/police association campaign that removed him from office and what’s next on the horizon for his work.

Before he was ousted from his position by a billionaire-backed recall effort in the summer of 2022, Chesa Boudin was elected District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco in November 2019. He ran on a platform centered on protecting crime survivors; reducing unnecessary incarceration; and addressing the root causes of crime. Some of Boudin’s work include a historic expansion of the office’s Victim Services’ Division, including promoting language access for victims of crime; eliminating prosecutors’ use of money bail; holding police officers who break the law accountable; starting worker protection unit; suing the manufacturers of ghost guns; and expanding diversion opportunities to address the underlying causes of crime and prevent recidivism.

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