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

In recent years, the criminal defense industry has gone through many changes, such as the growing influence of artificial ...

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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — From inmate deaths and mental health issues to slow-paced court processing, leaders say improvements must be made when it comes to the criminal justice system in Shelby County. In a ...

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

As an erstwhile drummer, I was drawn to the movie Whiplash, in which an abusive music instructor played by J.K. Simmons pushes his promising drum student nearly over the brink in his pursuit of ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...