Cohort 2024
For The People
Using Data to Reduce Barriers to Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing
Alameda County, CA
Prosecutor-initiated resentencing (PDF) seeks to transform the role of the prosecutor by creating broad, streamlined, and accessible pathways to resentencing people while engaging community members to build justice from the ground up. Though county prosecutors’ offices currently gather county-level data related to prosecution and incarceration, these data often are not readily available and require further analysis. Through deeper data gathering and analysis, trends that will activate prosecutors to pursue resentencing can be illuminated. For The People, a national nonpartisan organization, has worked to advance prosecutor-initiated resentencing laws by helping prosecutors enact such laws, launch resentencing initiatives, and ensure people reenter the community successfully.
With Catalyst Grant funding, For The People will develop a Prosecutor Resentencing Dashboard prototype for California counties that will provide prosecutors with current county prison data, highlighting data such as racial disparities, sentence lengths, and types of crimes. These dashboards will include raw data, filtering tools, data visualizations, and case-tracking elements. The goal is for this project to offer visibility around counties’ resentencing efforts, make cases more streamlined and manageable, and enable For The People to address resentencing barriers.
For The People was also a Catalyst awardee in 2022. Read about its 2022 project, Expediting Case Reviews for Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing.
