Criminal Justice

Research indicates that new security measures implemented after Parkland are not making students safer.

The Lone Star state has still not come up with a single method of determining which prisoners should be exempt from the death penalty, despite a Supreme Court mandate.

The New Jersey senator officially entered the 2020 presidential race on Friday, February 1st, joining a growing field of Democratic contenders.

When the underlying data they rely on is incomplete—and it often is—the growing use of machine learning tools in America's criminal justice system can have devastating effects.

A California law eliminating cash bail has been put on hold.

Two inmates from a Minnesota state prison discuss organizing a strike—and why they feel rehabilitative programming is still inadequate.

Even if a record is officially wiped clean, it's legal for criminal justice agencies and other websites to keep criminal records online.

For people with substance use disorders, day reporting can provide a safe environment and a space for counseling or treatment.

On a big day for Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis assumed his new position on Tuesday and, despite his efforts to delay it, Amendment 4 took effect.

Criminal justice reform on Capitol Hill, women take power in the Nevada assembly, and American teens go on vapecation.

The total number of executions is declining, but we're not executing the worst criminals—just the criminals with the worst lawyers.

A man convicted in an illegal, multi-year deer poaching scheme, was sentenced to watch Bambi once a month. While the punishment is certainly unique, the methodology isn't.

Pre-trial detention hurts defendants and taxpayers.

Pacific Standard spoke with Camille Fassett, a researcher with Lucy Parsons Labs, about the OpenOversight program—a public database indexing law enforcement officers by name, photo, incidents, and more.

It's all a matter of politics.

An interview with the managing editor at one of the country's most widely read prison newspapers.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice currently has an ombudsman within the agency, but two state politicians argue that making the position independent will lead to more objectivity.

The California governor's clemency decisions focus on people facing what he seems to view as systemic injustices. But his record on pardons wasn't always so progressive.

Scientists revise results on a major climate study, Trump supports criminal justice reform, and palm oil production threatens orangutan habitat.

A member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee discusses the retaliation prisoners face when fighting for their rights.

Hurricane Katrina forced policymakers in the city and state to fix not only some of the worst circumstances of incarceration, but also to prevent people from being held in dangerous conditions altogether.

Here's how Sessions, who resigned Wednesday at Trump's request, will be remembered.

Pacific Standard spoke with Alyssa Smaldino, an organizer with Survived and Punished, about the governor's record reluctance to commute the sentences of jailed domestic abuse survivors.

Now that felons can vote in Florida, Democrats might see a boost in future elections.