In a haunting letter, the family members of deceased abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre—along with several victims who have ...

Republicans in a red state have failed to initiate their pro-Trump gerrymandering efforts for the second time this month. On ...

In the latest judicial blow to President Donald Trump’s push to detain and deport undocumented immigrants en masse, a judge ruled Wednesday hundreds of people arrested in an Illinois immigration ...

Democrats highlight Jeffrey Epstein emails mentioning Trump, but the president and GOP lawmakers deny the messages mean he ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon who gained worldwide acclaim for his work, is currently hospitalized in Chicago, a ...

Several so-called “community peacekeepers” meant to be curbing violent crime in major Democrat-led cities are facing murder ...

They had, to that point, adopted a British system that held that so long as a juvenile engaged in behavior that seemed to indicate that the child understood that what they did was wrong, then the ...

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

Conservatives backed criminal justice reforms in hopes of driving down corrections costs and state budgets. A lot of violent and repeat offenders would have to be released to achieve real savings.

The Illinois Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would automatically seal criminal records for people convicted of crimes not considered “serious.” House Bill 1836, also known as the Clean Slate ...

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Lefty New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani says NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will fall behind his vision for criminal-justice reforms, insisting that if he wins the race, “everyone will ...