New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation
Misdemeanors Matter #3: Rachael Rollins Reboots Low-Level Justice
Rachael Rollins says she has seen the criminal justice system from “almost every angle.” Now, as Boston’s first female African-American district attorney, she’s setting the agenda. She explains her new approach of “services not sentences” as a response to low-level “crimes of poverty” and the urgency of changing the traditional role of the prosecutor.