A just system would shift away from punishment toward prevention and restorative justice. Community investment in programs, people returning to the community, and accountability are the path to a safe ...

The bill passed the Senate, 84 to 16, with all the no votes from Democrats. It next heads to the House, where a similar ...

A fight is brewing in England over new sentencing guidelines that require judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity and faith ...

South Carolina on March 7 carried out the first U.S. execution by firing squad in 15 years.

The gang posed as legitimate groundworkers to splice electricity from the national grid to power cannabis farms all over the ...

Based on a Colson Whitehead novel, the Oscar-nominated movie dramatizes the story of the Florida School for Boys, which ...

A shocking murder mystery contains traces of Black perseverance against injustice.

The chair of the body behind the sentencing reforms has defended the changes by saying a punishment tailored to individual ...

Auburn was the prison situated in a western New York town ... And William Freeman, a member of the area’s small but thriving Black community, was one of the people incarcerated there, just ...