Courts often agree to keep the details about wrongful convictions confidential. But if we’re serious about learning from these tragedies, the public deserves to know more than just the ...

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 former incarceree and a former probation officer say a proposed "Clean Slate" bill in Louisiana to streamline the expungement process is an example of how states can couple accountability with ...

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 ...

Long before the current probe into Russian meddling in US elections, Soviet and US intelligence agents were operating out of the National Press Building in Washington, DC to covertly influence ...

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.

The Mayor of London and the Home Secretary are shifting their position on the tenure of Dame Cressida Dick as the Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police. They are now openly critical of ...

At least 423 victims of domestic abuse, 601 victims of human trafficking and 749 of “modern-day slavery” were reported to immigration enforcement during the same time period.

Just before announcing his presidential run, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted his once-vocal support for stop-and-frisk tactics was wrong. But his apology raises more questions ...

The public health response to COVID-19 has failed prisoners, according to a new paper published by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Jails and prisons are increasingly ...