Maryland Public Defender advocates for childhood protection and criminal justice reform, highlighting the need for prevention and care over punishment.

Crime and criminal justice are once again common themes in this year’s presidential campaigns, leaving voters to sort through misinformation and misleading claims. We know it can be challenging for ...

Explore how U.S. criminal law defines, prosecutes, and punishes crime — including key elements, defenses, sentencing rules, ...

A growing number of people have been ignoring their jury summons and it’s raising a red flag for trial judges in criminal court. In a 2023 poll, the National Judicial College found that 58% of trial ...

The Garrison Project is not your standard digital news organization. It’s produced a total of 48 stories about criminal justice issues in a bit more than two years — hardly the publishing pace of a ...

For almost 10 years, the People’s Paper Co-op has used art to help women get out of jail, and to get people’s criminal records expunged. Courtney Bowles explains how the People's Paper Co-op invites ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Recently, before Chira left her post and took some much-deserved time off, I spoke with her about her tenure as editor, the ...

Jul. 3—VALDOSTA — Georgia is no stranger to the silver screen, and this time, its spotlight shines a harrowing light on the flaws of the criminal justice system in the form of a documentary, "The ...

JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Professor Dr. John D. Ciorciari, Dean at the Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University Bloomington on the practical challenges of prosecuting genocide and ...