Studies show Black children are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of their white peers. Racial disparities in the juvenile justice system have tended to mirror those in the adult criminal ...

When Jazmyn Taitingfong was a juvenile public defender, she saw firsthand how certain kids were criminalized for just being kids. She remembers one child who was accused of damaging property while ...

(Boston)—Firearm-related injury remains a significant burden in the U.S. with more than 45,000 people dying from these injuries in 2020. Suicides continue to account for the majority of all gun deaths ...

UPDATE (July 18, 2023, 3:50 p.m.): On Tuesday, a Senate committee in Alabama passed a different congressional map from the one discussed below, but it has the same flaws: Namely, it does not create a ...

The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, and may lead to the election of two Black representatives for the first time in the state’s history. By Emily ...

A three-judge federal panel said it was ‘deeply troubled’ that the state legislature had not complied with an earlier order A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its ...

A federal judge struck down a voting map that erased the only majority-minority county in Galveston, Texas, saying officials violated the rights of Black and Latino voters by not giving them an “equal ...

Oct 26 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia lawmakers to draw a new congressional map for the 2024 election, ruling that the current Republican-backed plan illegally diluted Black ...