In a stunning rebuke of the decade-long push to privatize Florida prisons, an independent audit says the state is losing money and facing litigation because…
While jail populations have dropped 18 percent in urban areas since 2013, they have climbed 27 percent in rural areas, says the Vera Institute of…
There’s widespread agreement among justice reformers that decisions about whether to jail people accused of crimes before trial should not be based on whether they…
The neighboring states of Washington and Oregon had starkly different rates of compliance with expanded comprehensive background check (CBC) laws on private gun purchases, according…
As news of the school shooting in Santa Clarita, Ca., broke last month, one key piece of information was absent from the headlines and initial…
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner responded to President Donald Trump’s attacks against him, inviting the president to come discuss criminal justice reform and casting Trump’s…
After initially saying the Monday shootings that left six dead in Jersey City, N.J., were a random act, officials now disclose that one of the…
In the United States, there are approximately 2.3 million people incarcerated at any moment, with the state of Louisiana “far outpacing the nation” as it…
More police officers were killed by gun-wielding offenders in the southern United States than in any other region, ABC News reports. According to FBI data,…
Photo courtesy Campaign for Youth Justice The number of youths in the nation’s juvenile correctional facilities who reported being sexually victimized has decreased, according to…