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Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor who is now the executive director of the nonprofit Fair and Just Prosecution, recently came out with a book chronicling the lives and work of prosecutors throughout the U.S. who have used the power of their offices to pursue a reformist vision of criminal justice.

"Change From Within: Reimagining the 21st Century Prosecutor" tells the stories of 13 former and current prosecutors who have held leadership positions, most commonly as district attorneys. Many of them grew up seeing the criminal justice system's vast footprint in their lives and went on to work toward a more compassionate, restorative approach.

Attorneys like these have sometimes been called part of a progressive prosecutor movement, but in her book, Krinsky calls the reform movement broad and bipartisan.

"District attorneys with a broad range of political ideologies are rallying around those objectives and the need for transformation," she writes.

Krinsky spent 15 years as a federal prosecutor in the mid-Atlantic and Los Angeles, where she helped implement reform measures within the Los Angeles Police Department. As an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, she served as chief of the general crimes and criminal appellate sections. Today, she is part of the American Law Institute's sentencing project advisory group and the ALI Principles of Policing advisory group.

All 13 profiles featured in Krinsky's book are accompanied by visual...

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