criminal justice

New Yorkers say they feel less safe now, though some widely reported data paint a different picture.

The Deep South state is considering reintroducing electrocution and the more recent execution method of oxygen deprivation using ...

Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds hearings to examine five years of the First Step Act. The First ...

By federal law, juveniles cannot be placed in adult prisons. Juveniles may be detained in a jail or ...

The Illinois Supreme Court on July 18 upheld the Pre-trial Fairness Act that eliminates cash bail for criminal ...

The wife of one of the New Brunswick RCMP officers murdered in 2014 says she is angry and ...

A lawsuit filed by the Alabama attorney general on Monday has reduced the number of inmates being immediately ...

A new breed of local prosecutors has taken district attorney's offices around the country by storm in a ...

Commentary Crime in California is spiraling out of control, diminishing the quality of life for its residents and ...

Commentary George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and bete noir of conservatives, has written a column for The Wall Street ...

CHICAGO—Illinois lawmakers passed a bipartisan trailer bill on Wednesday to improve a month-old criminal justice reform legislation that ...

The moment George Gascón took office as Los Angeles County’s district attorney on Dec. 7, he implemented a ...

Graying inmates, aging prison infrastructure, and the increased need for mental health care in prisons have strained California’s ...

In this episode of American Thought Leaders ??, we sit down with John Koufos, the National Director of ...

McALLEN, Texas—For 30 years, Phil Ethridge has been a professor of criminal justice at the University of Texas ...

Congress increasingly is being defined by what it's not doing this election year.

NEW YORK— Candie Hailey spent more than three years in a New York City jail, most of it ...

Criminal justice reform has become a hot topic around the nation amid a conversation about easing three-strikes sentencing ...

Students with school absences—some as young as 12 years-old—were being tried in local truancy courts and juvenile courts ...

When being homeless means getting into trouble with the law.

The private probation company, Judicial Correction Services, threatens poor defendants with jail time and charges extra fees, according ...

NEW YORK—Public defender Josh Saunders has seen over and over again how his clients go to jail and ...