Arizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.
Read moreMore than 60 inmates, disproportionately black, are set to stay in Washington state prisons for life — left out of the latest in a multiyear wave of reforms easing tough-on-crime three-strikes laws around the United States.
Read moreAmanda Knox is returning to Italy for the first time since she was convicted and imprisoned, but ultimately acquitted, in the murder and sexual assault of her British roommate in the hilltop university town of Perugia.
Read moreDemocratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California is introducing legislation, including a $250 million grant program, to ease the burden on public defenders around the country.
Read moreWhen the judge saw Bryan Stevenson sitting alone at the defense table, he told him to get out: He didn’t want any defendants in his courtroom without their lawyer.
Read moreHaving signed into law a major criminal justice reform bill last year, President Donald Trump on Monday said his administration will shift its focus to making it easier for people to get jobs and successfully rejoin their communities after prison.
Read moreAdopting a number of criminal-justice reforms with the 2020 budget, New York paved the way this weekend for the state to nix cash bail in the vast majority of cases.
Read moreUnable to wrangle the necessary votes at the end of legislative session Monday, Democratic lawmakers sidelined a bid Monday to make the Garden State the 11th to legalize recreational marijuana.
Read moreTrying to recoup potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for Uncle Sam, federal prosecutors are eying a Northern California couple’s clouded riches that they say was built on an $800 million scam involving solar panels.
Read moreData-driven policing strategies and artificial intelligence-driven technologies utilized by the Los Angeles Police Department lacked oversight in their implementation and often strayed from their stated goals, an internal audit found Friday.
Read moreNew York state regulators issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization’s insurance broker Tuesday, nearly a week after President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress that the president lied to insurers about his wealth.
Read morePlaudits inundated the office of Baltimore’s top prosecutor last month when State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced she would right the wrong of jailing thousands of people, usually black, for pot possession.
Read moreWhile California lawmakers have embraced prison reform and rehabilitation programs over the last several years to address overcrowding, a sobering report from the state auditor Thursday found results have been lackluster.
Read moreAttorneys for an Alabama man sentenced to 37 years in prison for a bank robbery asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reduce his punishment in light of the criminal-justice reform law passed by Congress last month.
Read moreTwo days after President Donald Trump put his signature on bipartisan criminal-justice reform, one notable federal prisoner quickly sought to benefit from the new law: former Bernie Madoff secretary Annette Bongiorno.
Read moreThe Senate on Tuesday night passed a criminal justice reform overhaul, the culmination of years of work for lawmakers keen on changing the nation’s sentencing and prison procedures.
Read moreAs the clock winds down on the promise by Republican leadership to vote on a criminal-justice reform bill, a bipartisan group of lawmakers released a new version Wednesday of the momentum-gaining legislation.
Read morePresident Donald Trump praised a room full of law enforcement officers, attorneys general and prosecutors Friday during his speech at a national conference on crime prevention, promising to “make America safe again.”
Read moreIn a closely watched case for criminal-justice reform advocates, the highest court of Massachusetts unanimously found nothing improper about requiring that a person remain drug-free as a condition of probation.
Read moreClarifying rules on the execution of European arrest warrants, a magistrate said Thursday that courts must make specific inquiries into whether the person being extradited is at risk of justice abuses.
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