While the U.S. criminal justice system is far from perfect, addressing its shortcomings requires reform, not abdication of ...

Maryland's prison system faces racial disparities and injustice. The Second Look Act could offer a remedy, but it's being ...

The murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin needs to be reexamined on the basis of facts alone.

The Wisconsin Assembly passed a slate of criminal justice related bills Thursday, including a requirement to revoke probation ...

In the past decades we have been able to observe judicial reactions to democratic backsliding both in Hungary and Poland. While judges in Hungary have seemed to adopt the typical restrained approaches ...

A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...

Schumer Backs Spending Bill and Lines Up Enough Democrats to Pass It Many Democrats wanted to block Republicans’ measure in defiance of President Trump, but Senator Chuck Schumer said a shutdown ...

Correction officers spend unstructured time with the incarcerated in the new model, hoping to stem problems before they start.

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.

Gov. Evers suggested borrowing taxpayer money to pay for the bulk of the projects, including a long-delayed one at ...