Maria Montalvo was convicted of her children's murders in 1996. Her attorneys say it was based on now-discredited forensic testimony.

Genovese, who worked on both the New Jersey and New Mexico campaigns and now researches and teaches about immigration ...

America’s criminal system has become one of the country’s largest mental health service providers, leaving the nation’s jails and prisons overfilled with people experiencing severe mental disorders, ...

A Texas judge approved a Batson motion, then overruled it. But a transcript shows that a Black man was struck unfairly, the attorney said. In early 2018, employees at a Prada store in The Galleria ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

White voices and victims dominate the genre, which can skew the perception of what constitutes a crime. I called Lowery not long ago to talk about that whiteness, which swamps the genre across books, ...

Steven Zick was 16 when he was subjected to “initiation” in the South Bend, Indiana juvenile jail. For Steven, “initiation” meant being beaten so badly by the other kids that he had a seizure. When ...

On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care. Trump’s series of sweeping executive orders ...

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 180,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as deadly fires ravage the city. Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 100 miles per hour whipped the ...

“They were destroying me,” said one person placed in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s “Program for the Aggressive Mentally Ill Offender.” In the nine months after Edee Davis arrived at the ...