People with mental illness are significantly overrepresented in our nation’s jails and prisons. Each year, roughly two ...

By embracing automated record clearing, we recognize that everyone has the potential for change and the government shouldn’t ...

He said that the sentences passed by courts needed more scrutiny, and judges 'must also be equipped with the information they need' to pass fair sentences on people from more deprived backgrounds ...

When we’re typically hit with news of state apparatus being mismanaged, poorly funded, or just plain failing, we are right to ...

Many bereaved relatives hope an inquest will identify institutional failings that contributed to the death - but the system ...

Jacqueline Lacy is proof that if you work hard enough, anything is possible. The Vermilion County State’s Attorney is honest about her failures. A college professor once told her she would never be an ...

The recent brutal killing of 14-year-old Pryce Johnson has left many Jamaicans with a gut-wrenching feeling. A student’s life ...

Before coming to WNYC/Gothamist, she spent three years covering the criminal justice system in Tennessee for Nashville Public Radio. Her reporting on Nashville's police department received ...

Ah, the tangled web of history—where the guy who helped bring us leaded gasoline also played a role in cancer research.

It will almost always feel tiresome to advocate on deaf ears or ... environments for young people with trauma or who have come into contact with the criminal justice system.

I recently took a class called “Punishment & Inequality” where we talked about the deeply rooted flaws of the American criminal justice system. As a criminology ... Similar to how the government and ...