In the Innovate for Impact Criminology Design Challenge, teams designed new initiatives to address some of society’s most ...

McLean County's three-year plan is the third of its kind, developed by an independent council of mental health stakeholders.

Attorneys from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Stanford Law School filed 18 petitions seeking to reduce the prison terms of ...

A wrongful conviction stole one man's life and shattered another family's faith in justice, and both sides carry wounds from ...

This individual was charged with dozens of felonies over the past three decades," Mayor Brandon Johnson told a City Hall ...

Many at the Future Women of Criminal Justice Symposium say the criminal justice field is dominated heavily by men, and it has ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday sought to head off concerns about public transit safety in the wake of a man lighting a ...

This Election Day, activists for justice reform and racial equity saw their vision for L.A.’s justice system come to life with George Gascón’s win in the Los Angeles County district attorney race. For ...

A group of prominent defense lawyers across the country have joined an effort to fix what they see as a fundamental imbalance in the federal criminal justice system: the near-total ban on pretrial ...

A growing trend in South Carolina: when the criminal courts deliver little accountability, victims are turning to civil ...

The information contradicts the Trump administration's narrative that it is targeting the "worst of the worst" when ...

Last year during the protests for racial justice, almost every major corporation released a statement standing in solidarity with the Black community. From McDonald’s to Nike, companies used their ...