It was dark and windy the evening of Sunday, September 8, 2019, when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—everyone called him Sito—and his girlfriend, Ariana Bassard, left his girlfriend’s mother’s new apartment in ...

Judges have various restrictions on what they can say publicly, and for that reason, you don’t often hear our voices in contemporary public-policy debates. But as momentum builds to address deep ...

The Maryland General Assembly passed three bills that aim to reform the state's criminal justice system. Gov. Wes Moore signed more than 90 bills into law after the end of the 2025 legislative session ...

While more must be done to shrink the footprint of the U.S. criminal justice system, the national dialogue around reform during summer 2020 has inspired transformative ideas and tangible policies that ...

WASHINGTON — To reduce racial inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system, local, state, and federal government should explore ways to reduce police stops and searches, jail detention, prison ...

Recently, the nation was informed of the deplorable case of Yutico Briley, a teenager sentenced to 60 years in prison for a 2012 armed robbery in which $100 was stolen but no violence occurred. He was ...

Here is a snapshot of the dramatic changes to four branches of law enforcement. In the span of a single week, the U.S. criminal justice system endured unprecedented upheaval, as law enforcement ...

Ms. Gelinas is a contributing editor for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Last week was not a good one for New York’s sense of public safety. That Monday a man with two knives roamed across ...

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I am a mother. I am a survivor of domestic violence. I am a renowned international artist. And along with countless others, I'm serving life without parole because of Michigan’s inhumane sentencing ...