Selected Op-Eds
Dems Err Calling for Tough Prosecutors, NY Daily News, September 8, 2024
N.Y. Must Have Mercy for Convicted, NY Daily News, January 14, 2024
Judicial Independence or Intimidation?, City & State, August 4, 2023
New York’s Compassionate Release Laws Were Designed to Keep People from Dying Behind Bars; They’re Failing, Gotham Gazette, May 9, 2023
No One Can See the Future: New York Needs Second-Look Sentencing Before More Lives are Wasted, Gotham Gazette, December 8, 2022
People Age Out of Crime: Prison Sentences Should Reflect That, TIME, September 9, 2022
Whose Case it it Anyway? Florida v. Nixon and McCoy v. Louisiana: Pro-Defendant or Pro-Government, ABA Criminal Justice Magazine, Summer 2022
Mass Incarceration and Broken Promises, NY Daily News, June 24, 2022
Governor Hochul Misses the Mark in First Clemency Considerations, Leaving Despair, Gotham Gazette, January 6, 2022
Say Their Names-People Deserving Clemency, Gotham Gazette, December 23, 2021
Dying Behind Bars: The N.Y. Way, Daily News, October 27, 2021
Grant more Clemencies, Governor: Cuomo’s Using too Little of His Power to Decarcerate, Too Late, Daily News, August 22, 2021
The New York Commission on Judicial Nomination Must Get The Next One Right, Gotham Gazette, August 12, 2021
Let All New Yorkers Vote for Manhattan DA, NY Daily News, June 10, 2021
The New York Senate Should Reject Cuomo’s Nominees to the State’s High Court, Slate, June 1, 2021
Remake New York’s Highest Court, NY Daily News, May 7, 2021
The Governor’s High Court, Gotham Gazette, April 22, 2021
New York’s Prisons are a Time Bomb of Fear, Isolation and Despair, Syracuse Post-Standard, February 4, 2021
Governor, How About Clemency,? NY Daily News, November 28, 2020
Sitting Ducks: COVID Threatens Many NYS Prisoners; Why Won’t Cuomo Grant More Clemency,? NY Daily News, September 13, 2020
Toppling Statues, and Prisons, Gotham Gazette, July 14, 2020
Life and Death at the Stroke of the Governor’s Pen, Gotham Gazette, June 17, 2020
Shatter ‘Broken Windows’ Policing, NY Daily News, June 10, 2020
Coronavirus Makes Reducing New York Prison Population a Matter of Life and Death, Syracuse Post-Standard, May 28, 2020
Legislature Must Address the COVID Threat to People in Prison, City Limits, May 27, 2020
The Governor’s Clemency Negligence, Gotham Gazette, April 29, 2020
If Ever There Were a Time for Clemency, It’s Now, City Limits, April 15, 2020
Think Bigger on Clemencies: Coronavirus, Prisons and Public Health, NY Daily News, March 28, 2020
What’s Really Behind Efforts to Reform Bail Reform? A Familiar Theme, Gotham Gazette, March 11, 2020
Judicial Discretion Isn’t a Fix for Bail Reform; Bail Reform was the Answer to Judicial Discretion, Gotham Gazette, February 14, 2020
Cuomo’s Clemency and Cruelty of False Hope, Gotham Gazette, January 9, 2020
Tis the Season for Clemency: Gov. Cuomo Should Let More New Yorkers Out of Prison Now, NY Daily News, December 17, 2019
Close Attica – and Build No New Prisons, Gotham Gazette, November 6, 2019
Mass Incarceration and Remorse, Gotham Gazette, October 22, 2019
Appealing Denials of Parole Release in New York State: A Guide to Filing Administrative Appeals and Article 78s (with Michelle L. Lewin & Martha Rayner), September 2019
Sentenced to Death by Incarceration in New York State Prison, Gotham Gazette, September 21, 2019
Depraved Indifference and Second Look Sentencing, Gotham Gazette, August 27, 2019
The Year of the Public Defender, Gotham Gazette, July 11, 2019
The State Legislature’s Criminal Justice Reform Failures, NY Daily News, July 8, 2019
Public Defenders as Prosecutors: Unanswered Questions, Gotham Gazette, June 20, 2019
How to Separate District Attorney Candidates All Claiming to be Progressive, Gotham Gazette, April 22, 2019
Criminal Justice Reforms Will Not Make Enough Progress If We Don’t Also Change the Criminal Court, Gotham Gazette, February 21, 2019
Let More Juvie Felons Out: Raise the Age is only a First Step, NY Daily News, October 15, 2018.
Fear-mongering Versus Reality in New York Parole, Gotham Gazette, October 5, 2018.
For Justice and Decarceration, Enact Second-Look Sentencing, Gotham Gazette, June 25, 2018.
New York City’s ‘Serious’ Crime Problem, City Limits, March 28, 2018.
McCoy v. Louisiana: Whose Case is it Anyway?, N.Y.L.J., January 19, 2018.
Governors, Think Big on Clemency, NY Daily News, November 29, 2017.
Rikers May Close. So Should Attica, Gotham Gazette, July 19, 2017.
The Treatment Court Cottage Industry and Its Unintended Consequences, Gotham Gazette, October 27, 2016.
NYPD “Peace Dividend” Reveals Truth About Unnecessary Arrests, Gotham Gazette, May 17, 2016.
The Adversarial Justice Court, Gotham Gazette, April 26, 2016.
Shut Down the Criminal Court, Gotham Gazette, February 25, 2016.
Punishment, Redemption, Mercy and Clemency, N.Y.L.J., February 16, 2016 at 6.
Justice is Swift as Petty Crimes Clog Courts, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, December 7, 2014 (ccresourcecenter.org/2014/12/07/justice-swift-petty-crimes-clog-courts/).
Playing Nice in Criminal Court: “Crashing the Misdemeanor System,” Collateral Consequences Resource Center, November 20, 2014 (ccresourcecenter.org/2014/11/20/playing-nice-criminal-court-crashing-misdemeanor-system/).
A System in Crisis, N.Y.L.J., August 20, 2014 at 6.
Is ‘broken windows’ broken? Yes, NY Daily News, August 3, 2014 at 34.
New York’s Solitary Confinement Reforms May Spark Larger Discussion, JURIST – Forum, Mar. 5 2014, http://jurist.org/forum/2014/03/steven-zeidman-solitary-confinement.php.
Equal Protection Examined in the Context of Policing, N.Y.L.J., February 7, 2014 at 6.
Criminal Court After Stop-and-Frisk, N.Y.L.J., August 28, 2013, at 6.
Indigent Defense: Caseload Standards, N.Y.L.J., March 24, 2010, at 6.
Racial Impact of Quality of Life Policing, N.Y.L.J., April 2, 2009, at 6.
Time to End Violation Pleas, N.Y.L.J., April 1, 2008, at 2.
