Which states are leading criminal justice reform efforts? Learn about key changes and champions in criminal justice today!

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 ...

The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement warned in a report on Wednesday of the prevalent racism against Africans and people of ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...

This is part of a series on crime and justice in Virginia. Read the other posts here: Pre-Arrest, Post-Conviction. A ...

I recently published a law review article in the Texas Law Review's symposium on mercy and the law, concerning the proper role of crime victims in the criminal justice process. Here's the abstract: ...

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 ...