Criminal defense lawyers are tracking when the Justice Department appears to rely on irregular charging practices, including ...

An engineer by training, he used systems theory and quantitative analysis to examine criminal behavior, revealing the ...

Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates believe is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the president of the Law Society of England and Wales The shocking backlogs in the criminal ...

More than a decade ago, I walked into the Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Los Angeles County to gather data for a lawsuit related to their “failure to provide an adequate education to detained ...

A decade ago, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to eliminate cash bail. The ballot question was simple, but what we voted on was complicated. Whether you knew it ...

From the outside, the Harris County Jail might be mistaken for a high-end condo, with walls of windows that overlook the bayou in downtown Houston. But the windows are fake, and the inmates ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Portland-based nonprofit is celebrating community, restorative justice and progress through healing with the release of a new mural. Over the summer, Ascending Flow spent ...

The House passed legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how youth who commit crimes are prosecuted in the District of Columbia as congressional Republicans mobilized behind President Donald Trump's ...

California weakened juvenile justice tools through years of legislative reform. Assembly Bill 1376 limits court oversight in violent juvenile offender cases. Victims face trauma while released ...

Influenced by economic, social and environmental factors, criminal behaviour is a complex phenomenon. Academics across disciplines as varied as sociology, geography, mathematics and psychology work to ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing quickly and is being adopted in most industries. Using AI to draft an email message or check your grammar is typically not a cause for concern, but using it ...