For three-and-a-half years, Maggie Yates helped lead criminal justice reform efforts in Spokane County. The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation had contributed nearly $4.5 million in grants to try to ...

Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.

PULASKI COUNTY, Va. – While Virginia has seen some of its most significant criminal justice reform in the past few years, some people think it’s not enough. State lawmakers, policy advocates along ...

Some vocal parts of our society are currently critical of prosecutors and claim they represent a broken criminal justice system. I challenge those critics to ask themselves whether they believe a ...

Capitol Hill is buzzing about the serious problems within our federal criminal justice system. The Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Justice, and other agencies are under the microscope ...

A group of prominent defense lawyers across the country have joined an effort to fix what they see as a fundamental imbalance in the federal criminal justice system: the near-total ban on pretrial ...

There is no denying that racism is a public health emergency in America. A recent commentary published in the Lancet — one of the oldest and most prestigious medical journals — said it plainly: racism ...

Jeffrey Bradley is affiliated with the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project which brings together critical criminologists, students, researchers, community members, front-line workers, and ...

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...