Cash bail keeps low-income Michiganders unfairly locked up while awaiting trial, say reformers. But police say the practice ...

Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez who had turned purple and unresponsive at ...

In the wake of the 2023 reinstatement of Pell Grants for incarcerated students, state officials are working to boost ...

The incoming district attorney for Los Angeles County, Nathan Hochman, says in an interview with The Associated Press that ...

Gun Owners of America claims Memphis Referendum Ordinance 5908 deviates from state law in a “blatant contravention.” ...

Criminal justice policy advocates caution against viewing the election results as a referendum against reform.

While California voters just rolled back some criminal justice reforms and ousted progressive prosecutors, even advocates for ...

Yale Law School’s Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic works to advance a bill reforming sentencing and commutation procedures ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Justice is supposed to be “blind .” But is race blindness always the best way to achieve racial equality? An algorithm to predict recidivism among prison populations is underscoring ...

The recent election has officially shifted America’s political landscape, with Republicans gaining control of the Senate, the ...

As the full picture of the results of the 2024 election begins to come into focus, we’re bringing you some key criminal ...

They gave Kamala Harris full support, but in a backlash, California voters turned tough on crime, turning down progressive ...