The Prison Policy Initiative has released a report challenging the effectiveness of specialty courts as an alternative to ...

Influenced by economic, social and environmental factors, criminal behaviour is a complex phenomenon. Academics across disciplines as varied as sociology, geography, mathematics and psychology work to ...

I appreciate the editorial board’s interest in our state’s prison system. As the new Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, I agree that “bold and urgent action to ...

New Mexico has a late 20th-century criminal justice system that cannot meet the challenges of mid 21st-century crime.

Not that long ago, in the summer of 2020, the moment seemed ripe for meaningful criminal-justice reform in America. Millions of people joined demonstrations denouncing the police killings of Breonna ...

Josh Spickler and Yonée Gibson discuss issues affecting the local criminal justice system. Just City’s Executive Director Josh Spickler and Just City’s Program and People Experience Manager Yonée ...

As Terrance Kurhansky’s case made its way through Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system, it became clear to his attorney and the presiding judge that their options were limited, and none of them was ...