Last week, legislation designed to accelerate reentry for thousands of federal prisoners passed the United States House of Representatives by a whopping 360-59 margin. Decarceration Nation podcast Up ...

With hundreds of young people being released from custody in response to fears about their vulnerability to the coronavirus, juvenile justice advocates are now focusing on the kids left behind. Youths ...

At first glance, Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion in Shinn v. Ramirez, issued last week, seems to constitute just another incremental step towards the right—one more incident in the modern Supreme ...

The singular threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic has managed almost overnight to do what years of advocacy have not: transform the pace of criminal justice reform from a trickle to a torrent in the ...

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.

At some point around the 40-year mark in a career spent representing indigent defendants in urban courts, I started to receive invitations to meetings about Criminal Justice Reform. This might be ...

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to tackle “the harsh realities” of America’s justice systems, says a forthcoming paper published in the Colorado Law Review Forum. The paper, ...

The rapidly evolving technology that produces “deep fakes”—convincing videos of people saying and doing things that are completely concocted—is now widely accessible, and creating nightmarish ...

Brooke Jenkins, San Francisco’s new district attorney, has fired at least 15 staffers from the district attorney’s office after taking over from ousted former DA Chesa Boudin, promising the public ...

Last week, the Los Angeles Times published an article about how some LAPD officers failed to follow department policy and immediately render aid to individuals shot by police. I think this story could ...

While several cities have set their sights on violence interruption to solve the problems of gun violence and over-policing in communities of color, those who work with such organizations say there is ...

New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, who was serving life in prison for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, died Tuesday at 89 years old, according to online Bureau of ...