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Over the years, Massachusetts’s rate of incarceration, as well as its prison population, have been on the decline. At the same time, watchdogs and prison reform advocates continue to call out the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten years ago, Alley Bean ...

The 9+ year-old group is taking the lead in pardon and expungement reform, right to banking for felons, and a Yale University research study on second chances. By centering the voices of people who ...

The discussion of criminal justice reform in the U.S. reaches beyond political party lines, with many advocating for change as unjust convictions have come to light over the past 20 years.

Governor Kathy Hochul sometimes reminds me of my first teachers, the mostly Irish nuns from the Dominican Sisters order who ran the Annunciation School on West 131st Street in Harlem in the 1960s. I ...

Aug 12, 2025 Aug 12, 2025 Updated Sep 19, 2025 0 A new report claims that judicial reform enacted by state voters in 2016 has saved more than $200 million in diverted correctional costs but that more ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A former investigator for Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater alleges the prosecutor improperly went after the leader of the state’s criminal justice reform movement.

Veronica Johnson, interim executive director of the Alabama Justice Coalition, speaks with supporters at the Alabama Statehouse on Tuesday, April, 8 2025 who attended the event to urge lawmakers to ...

Proposals to mandate pretrial data collection, crack down on domestic abuse and expand expungement eligibility are among the criminal justice bills eligible to be considered during the 2024 regular ...