INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Four people found dead in a shooting merely hours after the city-county council’s public safety & criminal justice committee voted down a new measure to tackle the growing crime ...

A comprehensive study on racial disparity in Allegheny County’s criminal justice system shows that Black people are five times more likely to be arrested than white people, 10 times more likely to be ...

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections received recommendations to improve solitary confinement, mental health care and ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on March 2 announced the opening of a new Public Health and Criminal Justice Research Center focusing on the mental health issues and drug addiction in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Many states have enacted polices to prohibit employers from discriminating against people with criminal records. Yet fathers living in states with more of these policy protections in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Nine months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to sue Alabama if a plan wasn’t in place to fix what they called “unconstitutional conditions inside state prisons.

SAN ANTONIO — This week, Bexar County commissioners approved a three-year study that will evaluate how law enforcement and the courts respond to domestic violence cases. Thousands of back-logged cases ...

The "golden thread" of British justice - the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty - has been exposed by the ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Washington County officials were urged Tuesday to adopt a "data-driven" model to operating the county criminal justice system. The Quorum Court's Jails/Law Enforcement/Courts Committee ...

Gov. Kay Ivey’s Study Group on Criminal Justice Policy met for the last time today and will write a report for the governor in time for the legislative session, which starts Feb. 4. The panel, chaired ...

Criminology vs. criminal justice: What’s the difference? Individuals interested in earning a degree and eventually pursuing a career in law enforcement, the correctional system or the juridical system ...

Judges in Harris County, Texas, were far more likely to appoint lawyers who had donated to their campaigns to represent poor criminal defendants. By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 years ago, the ...