The head of the Bureau of Prisons on Thursday reaffirmed the Trump administration’s commitment to implementing the landmark criminal-justice bill signed into law last year, even as reform advocates raised concerns about how some of the law’s key provisions are taking shape.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a flurry of criminal justice reforms Tuesday evening, including measures that bar law enforcement from using facial recognition software in body cameras, speed up the expungement process and end certain sentencing enhancements.
Read moreSeveral New York City councilmembers are expected to introduce bills Wednesday related to replacing the notorious Rikers Island penal complex, and they’re already facing pushback.
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris took aim Monday at the criminal justice system with her latest campaign plank, proposing to eliminate cash bail, private prisons and the death penalty.
Read moreThousands of parolees could regain the right to vote under a criminal-justice bill approved Thursday by California lawmakers.
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Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has unveiled a new flavor to highlight what it calls structural racism and a broken criminal justice system.
Read moreU.S. Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren introduced a new policy plan Tuesday to reduce the country’s mass-incarceration rates, which are the highest in the world.
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Former vice president turned 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden released a plan Tuesday to reform the American criminal justice system, emphasizing crime prevention over incarceration a week before the second round of Democratic debates.
Read moreMore than 3,100 inmates will be released from federal custody Friday as a result of sentencing changes made in the sweeping criminal-justice reform bill that became law in December.
Read moreRapper and criminal-justice reform crusader Meek Mill took one step closer to vindication Tuesday, with his attorney questioning the credibility of the sole witness in his decade-old criminal case and prosecutors conceding the former police officer couldn’t be put back on the stand.
Read moreOver a year after his incarceration sparked a national outcry for criminal-justice reform complete with its own hashtag, rapper Meek Mill returns to court Tuesday to push for a retrial.
Read moreSouth Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveiled a policy plan Thursday that aims to lessen the impacts of systemic racial inequality on black Americans by overhauling the criminal justice system and making large economic and education investments.
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Physicians and even a state prosecutor joined the effort to legalize marijuana Wednesday, telling Congress that federal approval will rectify years of harm to minority communities.
Read moreProminent Democrats Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teamed up Wednesday to introduce a public housing reform bill that would people help with criminal records secure federal housing assistance by removing what they call flawed policies of the War on Drugs era.
Read moreIn 1981, followers of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh bought a ranch in rural Oregon and established a city that set off a series of intriguing years-long legal controversies involving free expression of religion, land use and immigration that continue to resonate in present day.
Read moreDirecting immigration agents to stop arresting people in Massachusetts courts, a federal judge sided with prosecutors Thursday who say the threat of deportation should not deter people from participating in the justice system.
Read moreArizona 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.
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