The crazed man accused of stabbing two teen tourists at Grand Central Terminal and then slashing a fellow inmate at Rikers Island is the latest tragic example of New York City’s broken criminal ...

There are rising complaints from Donald Trump and his supporters that the Biden administration has “weaponized” the criminal justice system to harass and intimidate political and ideological opponents ...

Ralph is a professor of anthropology and public affairs at Princeton University. His book SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, is out now from Grand Central Publishing It was dark ...

On Oct. 16, 2016, 17-year-old David Hess was asphyxiated and died after being put in a chokehold by a staff member at Wordsworth Academy, a residential treatment facility for court-involved youth.

As Terrance Kurhansky’s case made its way through Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system, it became clear to his attorney and the presiding judge that their options were limited, and none of them was ...

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 ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

A shocking number of young Victorians have been slapped with a firearms ban as the state continues to grapple with youth ...

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It was dark and windy the evening of Sunday, September 8, 2019, when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—everyone called him Sito—and his girlfriend, Ariana Bassard, left his girlfriend’s mother’s new apartment in ...