Only a tiny fraction of those condemned to death in the United States are women. Yet their stories reveal how gender, trauma, and systemic bias combine to influence who receives the death penalty and ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

If Mamdani is elected, experts said he could make inroads by appointing a competent commissioner, listening to officers’ needs and overhauling responses to emergency mental health calls ...

A K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department in the Times Square subway station in 2023. A K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department in the Times Square subway station in ...

One effort to revisit overly tough sentences came from an unlikely source: prosecutors. It was called the “McDonaldization of punishment.” In the 1990s, alarm over high crime rates led to a raft of ...

Black women are still being overlooked in the workplace, a new report finds. “The 2024 McKinsey Women in the Workplace Report” shows “white women on the rise,” while Black women remain overlooked, ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...