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Capitol Hill is buzzing about the serious problems within our federal criminal justice system. The Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Justice, and other agencies are under the microscope ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

Upon identifying an individual with a documented history of mental illness, the assigned state prosecutor and defense counsel ...

Jeffrey Bradley is affiliated with the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project which brings together critical criminologists, students, researchers, community members, front-line workers, and ...

Ralph is a professor of anthropology and public affairs at Princeton University. His book SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, is out now from Grand Central Publishing It was dark ...

We all know getting entangled in the criminal justice system leads to serious consequences. But few among us really understand that the slightest brush with the law bears an even stricter potential ...

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...

Trump is facing dozens of criminal charges related to election interference and business dealings. Like clockwork, what follows Trump news is Trump noise. He hurls insults at judges, prosecutors, ...

As a senator, he backed legislation that led to mass incarceration and long drug sentences. Now his administration is signaling that he could use clemency to address inequities. By Kenneth P. Vogel ...