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 ...

Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City are prominent examples of how Democrat-run jurisdictions distort the criminal justice system. Other Democrat-run areas typically fly under the radar, and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

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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 ...

As Terrance Kurhansky’s case made its way through Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system, it became clear to his attorney and the presiding judge that their options were limited, and none of them was ...

Josh Spickler and Yonée Gibson discuss issues affecting the local criminal justice system. Just City’s Executive Director Josh Spickler and Just City’s Program and People Experience Manager Yonée ...

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 ...

A significant percentage of criminal defendants have mental health disorders, but our courts have few options to address these disorders that have brought these individuals into the criminal justice ...

Bill Gibbons and Jonathan Bennett discuss data practices within the criminal justice system. University of Memphis Public Safety Institute Executive Director Bill Gibbons and Center for Community ...