It’s time courts said something similar to law enforcement agencies. The unusually large number of judicial appointments for openings on the federal bench this year presents a unique opportunity to ...

Public safety is of paramount importance. To achieve it, those who commit a crime must be held to account. But it can’t end there. Ideally, after accountability comes restoration—and a clean slate.

He’s a participant in the diversion program operated by the Brooklyn Mental Health Court (BMHC), which allows seriously mentally ill defendants accused of a felony to accept a plea of guilty and ...

One man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder as the NYPD investigates the attack against three police officers on New Year’s Eve in New York’s Times Square. The 19-year-old suspect, ...

A new report from Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC) found that there were a record number of 56 deaths in North Carolina jails in 2020, and, of those deaths, 32 were due to suicide or related to ...

A new report from the National Abortion Federation (NAF) reveals that assaults directed at abortion clinic staff and patients increased 128 percent last year over 2020, reports Axios. Heated political ...

For juveniles entangled with the criminal justice system, the time spent on probation can greatly impact their success in life later on, or their likelihood to recidivate. Because of this, new ...

One-size-fits-all justice systems fail lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, who experience worse outcomes and are overrepresented in every part of the justice system, ...

Although there is a large and vast discussion throughout the United States around immigration, a subset of the immigrant population has been virtually ignored: the juvenile offender who is tried as an ...

Policies of prosecutors elected on progressive platforms around the U.S. show promise to reduce the nation’s incarceration totals, two experts told a gathering of state attorneys general. Jeremy ...

So, the goal for me was to [explore] the basic tenets of a liberal tradition, and a constitutional democracy, and evaluate the extent to which we’ve deviated from those principles [in policing]. The ...

At The Conversation, University of California, Santa Cruz researcher Heather Welch reported on her research work with Global Fishing Watch using missing transponder data to identify and track illegal ...