Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed California's prison system to embrace rehabilitation for incarcerated people. Will it be a lasting shift?

The 2026 film ‘Mercy’ imagines a world where AI decides criminal justice outcomes. No matter how advanced the system, though, ethical questions remain.

A Lived Experience Perspective, aims to provide students with a real image of incarceration, from arrest to reentry ...

Report to tackle courts’ backlog also recommends new criminal justice adviser to oversee courts, prisons and policing A new post of prime minister’s criminal justice adviser and the widespread use of ...

In a bipartisan move, Congress passed a measure to provide $4 million worth of funding to construct a national center to help veterans ensnared in the criminal justice system. The funds, part of the ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

2025 was a turbulent year, with the courts at the centre of national contestation. From the aftermath of the Gen-Z protests—where youths were charged with terrorism—to police chiefs seeking to clear ...

A decade ago, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to eliminate cash bail. The ballot question was simple, but what we voted on was complicated. Whether you knew it ...

In 2025, through evocative illustrations and photography, The Marshall Project’s visual storytelling tackled themes of deplorable jail conditions, judicial power, the racist origins of the juvenile ...

President Donald Trump may be stretching executive power to its outermost bounds, but in one very significant area he is simply not getting his way: criminal prosecutions. In many cases—such as those ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A growing trend in South Carolina: when the criminal courts deliver little accountability, victims are turning to civil lawsuits for answers. A Charleston man who survived a ...

“If we’re indicting people because the president hates them, that’s counter to the whole point of doing my job.” “Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; our job was to find the facts ...