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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Hope springs eternal in the human heart,” wrote Alexander Pope in 1733. Today, his words are ritualized in a production staged quarterly in Olympia, Washington. Countless Washington prisoners pray to ...

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 ...

FBI Special Agent Jeff Cisar speaks about his Web site bankbandits.org that has helped catch bank robbers in the Baltimore area. Plus, read Peter Hermann of the Baltimore Sun’s Crime Beat take on law ...

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 ...

“Nationwide legalization [of recreational marijuana use] would be associated with 6,800…excess roadway deaths each year,” according to a recent study published by the Journal of the American Medical ...