California, once a leader in finding ways to lock up fewer people by lowering sentences for some drug and property crimes, is now considering reversing course. And it is not alone. Lawmakers across ...

As pundits compete to explain the results of this year's presidential election, a familiar narrative has emerged about local election results: the notion that voters have delivered a wholesale ...

As Democrats head into a new legislative session and reevaluate their priorities, criminal justice reform advocates are not backing off their push for sentencing reform. They plan to hold rallies ...

Not that long ago, in the summer of 2020, the moment seemed ripe for meaningful criminal-justice reform in America. Millions of people joined demonstrations denouncing the police killings of Breonna ...

Michael Taylor, program coordinator for Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration, presents at the Carceral State Project Symposium Saturday afternoon. Venus Jefferies/DAILY. Buy this photo.

Editor’s Note: Mark Osler is the Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas (MN), and a former federal prosecutor. The opinions expressed here are his own.

The Bail Project, a national nonprofit that helps thousands of incarcerated people get out of jail as they await trial, closed its Atlanta branch on Monday due to a new Georgia law that strictly ...

He recalled his father's professional training, who was a lawyer also shaped by the speeches of Neapolitan jurist Alfredo De ...

Leading into the COVID pandemic, one of the biggest things the left was pushing for wasn't lockdowns, shutting down private businesses, or any of the hysteria they engaged in starting after Joe Biden ...

It was all smiles among President Donald Trump, criminal justice reform advocates, law enforcement representatives, and a bipartisan group of legislators in the Oval Office in 2018. Trump, who ...

As complex discussions around youth-involved crimes continue across the state, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender hosted a session titled “In Defense of Us – Championing for Children: ...