It is just one example of how our criminal justice system is in need of urgent reform. Recent figures suggest that about ...

Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster.

Last week, I had an innocent client plead guilty and go to jail. He had fought the charges against him for years, but on the eve of trial, thoughts of possibly being convicted of a felony and losing ...

BOSTON (AP) — During the 22 years he spent in prison after being convicted of killing a Boston police detective, Sean Ellis believed there was something suspicious about the officers who led the ...

Tune out the noise and know this: former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi is the force we need to fix the Department of Justice, and Americans can rest assured that weaponizing any part of our ...

Are you the victim of a crime? Do you feel the criminal justice system efficiently assisted you? Have you been in prison, probation or parole? Have you faced barriers related to housing or education?

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 ...

As if the continuing U.S. confession controversy were not complicated enough, now the custom of joint trials has surfaced to compound the confusion. When a crime involves more than one defendant, most ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

The issues plaguing the Tarrant County criminal justice system cannot be resolved merely by electing a new sheriff or adding more lawyers. (Oct. 2, 1A, “Family of woman who died in Tarrant jail ...