Commentators argue that African Americans in law enforcement can play a primary role in tackling the historic legacy of police racism. But first they have to get in the door. Interviews with criminal ...

Richard M. Aborn has been a player in the New York City criminal justice world since 1979, when he began his legal career as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. In the 1990s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a result of a lawsuit filed last year by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia’s court leadership has agreed to changes that could lead to many more people being released before trial. Now, it’s ...

Teenagers are increasingly at risk of overdose as fentanyl overdose deaths sweep the country and, as they return to school, experts warn they may run into the substance more in unexpected ways, Axios ...

Why would a Kentucky newsroom 2,000 miles from the headquarters of a ruthless Mexican drug lord named “El Mencho” spend nine months; commit 21 staffers; travel to Mexico, 15 American cities and five ...

New York City’s DNA database has grown by nearly 29 percent over the last two years, and now has 82,473 genetic profiles, becoming a potentially potent tool for law enforcement but one that operates ...

The Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, a 30-member panel that advised the state legislature on criminal justice policy for almost 20 years, was disbanded on Sunday by the Democratic ...

A landmark analysis by Solitary Watch and Unlock the Box exposes high rates of solitary confinement in US prisons and jails, Erik Ortiz reports for NBC News. An estimated 122,840 individuals were ...

The Uvalde and Buffalo mass shootings had at least two things in common: The shooters were 18 years old, and they had both legally purchased their own assault rifles. The shooters’ young age was not ...

Thirty-four people have been kidnapped in South Africa’s Western Cape over the last seven months, with eleven members of the area’s Bangladeshi community being taken hostage in the past three months ...