Understanding that people don’t have a choice in mental illness and addiction is the first step in reducing stigma and ...

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 ...

José Pérez, the president of the Milwaukee Common Council, said Thursday he would begin work to find solutions after an August report outlined immense issues in the local criminal justice system as a ...

In 2017, Yale Law professor James Forman Jr. published his first book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.” The book won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. For the ...

The Broward County State Attorney’s office will now publicly share data about who they prosecute and how they prosecute. Releasing the data, known as Prosecutorial Performance Indicators, is part of a ...

Have you ever wondered what it takes to fundamentally improve safety, justice and fairness in South Carolina’s criminal justice system? The short answer is, it’s complicated. However, it is not an ...

Bryan Stevenson, the prominent lawyer and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has blazed a trail representing the poor, wrongly convicted and those on death row. Geoff Bennett sat down ...

Black voters in critical background states want to see federal and state governments tackle criminal justice reform, according to a national poll released Wednesday. The poll conducted by BSG on ...