Two police chiefs in Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama have spoken out to condemn a recent report by MoneyGeek that ranked the cities second and third on a list of the most dangerous cities in the ...

Data USA, an online resource for public government data, reports that roughly 12.4 percent of police officers nationally are African American, while 67 percent are white. In addition, Axios reports ...

With a 12th person dying in jail this year, the brutal conditions that have long characterized Rikers Island are once again on display. What we’re witnessing should compel us to act. Officials must ...

A Neo-Nazi in Portland, Oregon, who put an Anti-Semitic racial purity sticker outside the local Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization was sentenced to an interesting rehabilitative sentence: a ...

Taxpayers fund the criminal justice system, and when things go badly wrong — an innocent man is imprisoned, or the police recklessly shoot an unarmed mental patient—the taxpayers pay the bill for the ...

Last month, the Boston Globe detailed widespread parking violations by officers outside Boston police headquarters. Officials declared the violations, including the routine use of ...

Donald was first incarcerated when he was just seven years old. A poor kid with an under-resourced single mother, Donald was first kicked out of kindergarten for throwing tantrums. Two years later, ...

Take a look at the two well-circulated graphs below. If you agree with them, you are in alignment not just with the law, but with contemporary mores that stipulate the sole cause of rape and domestic ...

District Attorneys are accustomed to recommending prison sentences as part of their job. But in an unusual exercise this month, they learned what it felt like to reenter society after serving time ...

The warnings about Florida student Nikolas Cruz seemed to flash like neon signs: expulsion from school, fighting with classmates, a fascination with weapons and hurting animals, disturbing images and ...

In October 2003, a star college football player named Mark Fisher was found shot dead on a leafy, residential Brooklyn, NY street. The crime attracted intense media coverage and stymied investigators ...

Discipline in New York’s prison system has only gotten more unequal. New York’s Inspector General Lucy Lang confirmed a significant racial disparity exists between the discipline of white incarcerated ...