The Douglas County Courthouse is pictured in this contributed photo from June 2020. Douglas County leaders will soon discuss the various punishment and diversion programs of the county’s criminal ...

In the United States, the criminal justice system is one of many public institutions whose workings span multiple jurisdictions. If you’ve been arrested and served jail time, it’s not uncommon to ...

Lawmakers and media often speak of the “criminal justice system” or of “criminal justice reform.” But more and more people and organizations are using the term “criminal legal system” to describe ...

In 2020, around 2.3 million Americans were in some sort of criminal justice confinement, according to an analysis by advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative. That includes state prisons, local jails, ...

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

Editor’s Note: Van Jones is the host of the “The Van Jones Show” and a CNN political commentator. He is the CEO of REFORM Alliance, an organization aiming to reduce the number of people serving unjust ...

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 ...

Crime permeates our social fabric. It always has because we are all deviant and deviance is an underpinning of criminality. Whether you believe people are born criminals or socialized to become so, we ...

The Committee on Law and Justice will convene an ad hoc committee to review and assess existing evidence on how observed racial differences in criminal justice might be reduced through public policy.

From health care to climate change, the crowded field of Democratic presidential contenders has a number of complex subjects to tackle in stump speeches, interviews and debates. But few are proving as ...

The unprecedented criminal conviction of former President Trump has opened a dark chapter in the history of America's criminal justice system, according to several legal experts. A New York jury on ...

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