Criminal justice reform advocacy groups plan to support bills targeting parole, prison conditions and the death penalty in the 2026 Alabama legislative session. But advocates also acknowledged that their main work may be against bills to increase criminal penalties,

Rank-and-file prosecutors and agents have expressed serious concern that a hobbled work force hurts the government’s ability to identify and stop terrorist plots, cyberattacks, mass violence and fraud.

National outrage over a controversial Woodford County case could reverse portions of a 2011 law that had overwhelming bipartisan support.

Overlooked: Stories of Mental Illness & the Criminal Justice System People with mental illness are overrepresented in our nation’s jails and prisons. About 2 million times each year, people with mental illness are booked into jails — often for reasons related to the symptoms of their untreated illness.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system, The Post has learned. Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty ...

The stakes are too high to look the other way: if the Federal Reserve loses its independence, the economy will suffer.”