Criminal Justice

The unfathomably unjust execution of Nathaniel Woods on Friday has sparked widespread outrage and scorn from…

Instagram model, activist and almost-lawyer Kim Kardashian, affectionately known as “the Rosa Parks of people who…

In the last few years, the topic of cash bail has come under renewed scrutiny. The practice inordinately affects the…

Effective Jan. 1, a New York law eliminating cash bail for most nonviolent crimes will go into effect. While…

Fresh into his new job as governor of Kentucky, Democrat Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday to restore…

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx took the first step toward wiping more than 1,000 marijuana convictions off…

For the first time since resuming capital punishment last year, the Tennessee Supreme Court has pumped the brakes on…

A high-ranking NYPD leader who oversees the department’s subway policing division has come under increased scrutiny…

In a full-circle moment no one saw coming, A$AP Rocky is giving back to the Swedish jail that held him for several…

In its commitment to addressing the failures of the prison industrial complex—as it pertains to mental health, drug…

Kim Kardashian West for the people!

As New York joined a handful of other states in passing sweeping criminal justice reforms, one of the state’s top…

Innocent until proven guilty is one of the foundational tenets of American jurisprudence. Even when a person is…

A New Orleans man who has long maintained he was wrongly convicted of murder experienced freedom for the first time…

The nation’s highest court on Wednesday is set to review the life sentences handed down in the early aughts to a…

The then off-duty Chicago cop who fired his gun out of his car window, striking and killing Rekia Boyd, an innocent…

A 21-year-old Florida man who was locked up for 10 days for missing jury service had the rest of his sentence…

The judge who presided over the trial of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas cop convicted of murdering an unarmed black…

On Tuesday, the Georgia Dignity Act (House Bill 345) went into effect in all women’s prison facilities in Georgia,…

Years after an Oklahoma mom was released from prison after being handed a 12-year sentence for making $30 in weed…