I spoke to Zamora back in March. She described how her brother’s incarceration fueled her interest in criminal justice reform, why this issue isn’t as simple as the left vs the right, and how ...

Tune out the noise and know this: former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi is the force we need to fix the Department of Justice, and Americans can rest assured that weaponizing any part of our ...

From immigration to the death penalty and beyond, here are some of the administration’s key changes in criminal justice.

With the election season heating up, there’s a lot of talk about reforming our criminal justice system and the role police and qualified immunity play within that system. But perhaps the biggest ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Spring 2024 magazine. You can subscribe here. Nearly a quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the ...

Are you the victim of a crime? Do you feel the criminal justice system efficiently assisted you? Have you been in prison, probation or parole? Have you faced barriers related to housing or education?

Five years ago this month, Donald Trump signed a major sentencing and prison reform bill into law. Known as the First Step Act, the law was wildly popular with Congress and the public, giving Trump a ...

Back in the early 1990s, there was a bar association forum devoted to the nascent and growing problem-solving court movement. After I raised some questions about the “we’re all in this together” ...

The investigative reporters on WBEZ’s criminal justice desk tell the stories of the thousands of individuals churning through the legal systems every year in Chicago, Cook County and Illinois and hold ...

County Commission Chairman Ed Turanchik thinks the term criminal justice system is a misnomer. "There is no system," Turanchik said. "There are people carrying out their constitutional and statutory ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOSTON (AP) — During the 22 years he spent ...

Government claims that outsourced criminal justice services are working well are routinely greeted with scepticism by frontline lawyers. Eduardo Reyes investigates.