This is part of the “Confronting the Women’s Incarceration Crisis” series, where we examine what is driving more women into ...

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 ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...

President Donald Trump is bending the U.S. justice system to his personal purposes in a way that is unprecedented in American history, prompting significant questions about how a system built on ...

As a former prosecutor, Harris should understand that the executive branch has tremendous power to work to end mass incarceration, abolish the death penalty, and stop unlawful racial profiling. If ...

The college said North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley's Oct. 1 talk is a community opportunity to learn about a new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who violently stormed the Capitol four ...

FAYETTEVILLE — The retirement of Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay on Tuesday and the formal swearing in of Circuit Judge Matt Durrett on Friday morning represents a changing of the guard in criminal courts ...

He added that D.C.'s definition of a juvenile is "seven years higher" than in other cities. Criminal justice advocates questioned why the House would involve itself in the affairs of the District, ...

Ms. Gelinas is a contributing editor for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Last week was not a good one for New York’s sense of public safety. That Monday a man with two knives roamed across ...