Criminal Justice

Inmates held in the DeKalb County Jail have been railing against conditions there. A social media post has brought attention to their pleas.

Denver residents voted to decriminalize magic mushrooms, in the process ending a 65-year smear campaign against an unwitting MKUltra study subject.

Lawsuits used to be a path to prison reform, but they're now an uphill battle for prisoners and their families.

In Illinois and Wisconsin, laws restricting post-incarceration name changes are leaving trans people with government IDs that don't align with their gender identities.

Civil rights advocates argue such arrests dissuade immigrants from seeking the protection of the law.

Bernie Sanders supports expanding the U.S franchise to people in prison. Pete Buttigieg does not. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are unsure.

Tens of thousands marched against the territory's proposed extradition law, which would allow the transfer of crime suspects to mainland China for trial.

New Hampshire could become the 21st state in the nation to repeal the death penalty, a practice that is in decline both in the United States and around the world.

A California bill replaces cash bail with risk-assessment algorithms, which critics argue will perpetuate the pre-trial detention of minority and low-income defendants.

New research finds that minority youth who are confronted by officers are more likely to subsequently engage in delinquent behavior than those who don't face such encounters.

Protesters organized by the Fraternal Order of Police call for the removal of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx on April 1st, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois.

Immigrants with certain prior criminal convictions will now be placed in detention without the opportunity to petition for release.

The Supreme Court will weigh whether Lee Boyd Malvo, now 34, should have a lessened sentence for his role in this crime that he took part in when he was a minor.

Hoda Muthana, a 23-year-old American from Alabama who joined ISIS in 2015, wants to come home and face justice—is that possible?

The governor's moratorium affects 737 people—more than a quarter of the country's death row inmates.

The lawsuit follows a Supreme Court decision allowing Alabama to deny a Muslim-American man's request to have an imam present at his execution.

Don't take it without corroboration.

The president's former lawyer is likely seeking a sentence reduction, but that won't depend on his public testimony.

Texas has been trying to execute Bobby Moore for decades. The Supreme Court once again said "no."

Actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct for making a false report of a hate crime. Research shows such reports are rare.

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.