Why haven’t the recent shifts in public opinion in favor of criminal justice reform produced more concrete changes across the country? A forthcoming paper from…
New York state legislators agreed to further decriminalize possession of marijuana and automatically expunge many low-level marijuana convictions across the state, but stopped short of…
The Supreme Court reversed the most recent conviction of Curtis Flowers, a black Mississippi man who has been tried an extraordinary six times for a…
Florida legislators have been given a bracing analysis of their criminal justice system that identifies serious disparities in sentencing policy and calls for a major…
Reducing violence and increasing safety requires building trust between the police and marginalized communities, a conference on violence prevention was told Wednesday In order to…
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the scope of a federal sex offender registration law, CNN reports. The 2006 Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act…
Justice isn’t blind for Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. A study by two Penn State University professors found that Hispanic non-citizens—including both green card holders…
For Gladys Muhammad, the pain of tragic violence is close to home. Her 16-year-old great-nephew, who had played football for his high school, was gunned…
As city officials continue to push forward the closing of the derided Rikers Island jail, one of the world’s largest corrections facilities, one obstacle is…
Leading state corrections chiefs say a new report showing that 45 percent of prison admissions nationwide are driven by violations of parole or probation is…