The Supreme Court hears three cases about whether the First Step Act applies to certain circumstances for reducing sentences.

DALLAS, TEXAS, USA, April 5, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / -- The Justice Reform Foundation (JRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to reforming the criminal justice system, has announced a ...

State Senator Christopher Belt supports Illinois' Clean Slate Act automating sealing of eligible criminal records, promoting ...

A pair of handcuffs poking through prison bars. Most bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice system failed in the session, though advocates were encouraged by the progress of some proposals.

Criminal law continues to be one of the most dynamic and impactful fields within the legal profession. Whether your passion lies in defending the accused, prosecuting on behalf of the state, or ...

After working as a U.S. Senate page when he was sixteen, Jake Lilly went on to intern at the White House in 1998. After receiving his law degree at Cornell, he joined the Army and in 2005 served in ...

Governor Kathy Hochul sometimes reminds me of my first teachers, the mostly Irish nuns from the Dominican Sisters order who ran the Annunciation School on West 131st Street in Harlem in the 1960s. I ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The law-and-order tilt of Trump 2.0, especially with regard to illegal immigration, has certainly divided the country. But forgotten among the maelstrom: The first Trump term ...

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded ...

North Korea recently scrapped its system of preliminary examinations—a legal procedure the country maintained for roughly 70 years since the regime’s founding.