If pro-criminal judges are going to use their discretion to free criminals, legislators must remove both them and their ...

Melissa Ludin, state board member at Ex-incarceraed People Organizing (EXPO) (Photo by Isiah Holmes) The Wisconsin Examiner’s Criminal Justice Reporting Project shines a light on incarceration, law ...

Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday that he had signed two executive orders to begin offering commutations, a reduction of a ...

As the media and the debates made clear, the question of crime, and the perception of crime, took on prominence in the mayoral election. While Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa proposed adding thousands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbed wire and fences surround the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School, a juvenile detention center in Maryland. Juvenile justice is one ...

A San Francisco judge today ordered Public Defender Mano Raju to pay $26,000 in fines for refusing to take cases that his ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. The Trump ...

Recent events in Minnesota have shown repeatedly that that the state's criminal justice system needs to be transformed.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is backing several bills to speed up the criminal justice process, including stricter ...

Criminal justice has emerged as one of the most wide-ranging and politically charged areas on lawmakers’ agendas in this year’s state legislative sessions. Across the country, legislators are weighing ...