Jail and prison reformers’ hopes of reducing inmate populations will get nowhere unless they figure out how to incorporate the perspectives of the justice system’s most vulnerable constituents.

The replacement for departing Attorney General William Barr should be aggressive in holding corporate bosses accountable for their misconduct, write two whistleblower lawyers. Their candidate ...

Police shootings and former Dallas Chief David O. Brown head TCR’s list of top criminal justice stories and newsmakers for 2016. Readers and contributors also selected Donald Trump's election ...

The Tap In Center is an experimental service that launched at the Florissant Valley Branch of the St. Louis County Library in fall 2020. At the center, volunteer attorneys work with people who ...

A new documentary, which premiered last night in Washington DC, traces the evolution of America’s modern prison-industrial complex to its drug-war roots. Director Regan Hines tells TCR why he ...

Despite being placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email chain that included pictures that were determined to negatively portray Black people, and that bore the ...

When you walk into the weightlifting room of the CompleteBody gym in the buzzy Chelsea neighborhood in downtown New York City, it feels at first like any other fitness center. The room vibrates ...

On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced an agreement with City National Bank. Officials described the settlement as the largest ever secured by the DOJ against a bank for illicit ...

Before the Black Lives Matter protests triggered similar manifestations of anger in many nations, the U.S. had already spent decades spreading its tough-on-crime, security-oriented philosophy ...

In an interview, Brooke Jenkins emphasized that the city has to go back to holding repeat offenders and repeat violent offenders accountable.

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 ...

Experts gathered at Virginia's George Mason University to discuss how to analyze mass violence incidents, react to them and possibly to stop them from happening.