费城的地区检察官拉里克拉斯纳已经任职不到两年，但在他的时间到目前为止，他已经无罪，因为二级谋杀，抢劫和阴谋等犯罪行为已经无罪。
克拉斯纳告诉记者Jericka Duncan在哥伦比亚广播公司今早报道说美国优先考虑惩罚，而不是康复，而这正是他在费城寻求改变的。他正在“缩短”缓刑和假释命令，这些命令通常会被判处监禁。他还为非暴力罪犯减轻了刑罚。这些是他认为他可以在经济上和文化上改变费城的一些方式。
上任后，克拉斯纳承认，费城是该国十大城市中监禁率第二高的国家，每年在其监狱中花费约3亿美元。更不用说，过度拥挤，克拉斯纳在2018年告诉新闻周刊，引发了监狱背后的暴力。
“成本，”他说，“正在削弱和不必要。”
康复服务的费用只是监禁某人的一小部分，无论该人复发和返回多少次以获得更多治疗，这都是正确的，他在2018年提出并在CBS今晨再次重申。“那么，为什么呢，”克拉斯纳说，“当这些人非暴力并且在统计上不太可能有危险时 - 为什么社会不这样做呢？”
最近，Krasner已经解雇了Chester Hollman，Terrance Lewis和Johnny Berry。总的来说，这些男子因犯下他们没有犯下的罪行而被判入狱近74年。
“身体上，我是自由的，”霍尔曼告诉CBS记者Jericka Duncan。“但是，就像，我正在处理很多情绪化的事情。我正试图找到自己。”
据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道，一名法官在检察官重新审理案件并证明他无辜于1993年的谋杀罪后，于7月释放了霍尔曼。当局有证据指出其他嫌疑人，但在霍尔曼定罪时尚未披露。
刘易斯告诉邓肯：刘易斯说：“就我个人而言，即使是90天，我也没有回家。虽然我很开心，但我很感激，这绝对是困难的。我在精神上和身体上都受到了奴役。我仍然受到创伤。这落在了我们身上。他们把我们的生活连根拔起。当我说'他们'时，意味着整个系统。“
根据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道，克拉斯纳表示，定罪诚信部门实际上拒绝了其调查的大部分案件，到目前为止，它已经在其重新审查的案件中推翻了大约4％的案件。
尽管如此，克拉斯纳表面上还是试图改革各级的量刑做法，从成年人少的孩子到提供更慷慨的辩诉交易，以及为非暴力犯罪判处的刑期更少。
克拉斯纳说：“我们实际上非常非常认真地追求枪击事件，关于枪口抢劫事件，关于追捕强奸事件。我们将注意力集中在那里。”Krasner补充道，将通过改革所节省的资金汇回公立学校是他如何计划恢复贫困和犯罪缠身的街区。
Philadelphia's district attorney Larry Krasner has been in office for less than two years, but in his time so far, he's exonerated nine people who have maintained their innocence for crimes like second-degree murder, robbery and conspiracy.
Krasner told correspondent Jericka Duncan on CBS This Morning that the U.S. has prioritized punishment, not rehabilitation, and that's what he's seeking to change in Philadelphia. He's "shortening up" the probation and parole orders that are generally tacked onto the end of a jail sentence. He's also lightening sentences for nonviolent offenders. These are some of the ways he sees that he can change Philadelphia economically — as well as culturally.
Upon taking office, Krasner recognized Philadelphia had the second highest incarceration rate of the country's 10 largest cities, spending roughly $300 million a year on its prisons. Not to mention, the overcrowding, Krasner told Newsweek in 2018, sparked violence behind prisons.
"The costs," he said, "are crippling and unnecessary."
Rehabilitation services cost a fraction of incarcerating someone, and that holds true no matter how many times the person relapses and returns for more treatment, he suggested in 2018 and reiterated again on CBS This Morning. "So why," Krasner said, "when these people are nonviolent and statistically unlikely to ever be dangerous — why as a society would we not do that?"
Most recently, Krasner has exonerated Chester Hollman, Terrance Lewis and Johnny Berry. Collectively, the men spent nearly 74 years in prison for crimes they said they did not commit.
"Physically, I'm free," Hollman told CBS correspondent Jericka Duncan. "But, like, it's just a lot of emotional things that I'm dealing with. I'm trying to find myself."
A judge freed Hollman in July, after prosecutors reopened his case and proved he was innocent of the 1993 murder for which he was serving life in prison, CBS News reported. Authorities had evidence that pointed to other suspects, but it was not disclosed at the time of Hollman's conviction.
Lewis told Duncan: Lewis said, "Personally, I haven't been home not even 90 days. Although I've been happy, and I'm grateful, it's definitely been difficult. I have been enslaved, mentally as well as physically. I'm still traumatized. This fell upon us. They uprooted our life. When I say 'they,' meaning the system as a whole."
According to CBS News, Krasner said the Conviction Integrity Unit actually rejects most of the cases it investigates, and that so far, it's overturned convictions in about 4 percent of the cases it has reexamined.
Still, Krasner is ostensibly attempting to reform sentencing practices at all levels, from trying fewer children as adults to offering more generous plea deals and handing out fewer prison sentences for nonviolent crimes.
"We are actually very, very serious about going after shootings, about going after gunpoint robberies, about going after rapes. We are focusing our attention on that," Krasner said, adding that funneling the money saved through his reforms back into public schools is how he plans to revive impoverished and crime-ridden neighborhoods.
