"It is no exaggeration to say that, without plea bargaining, mass incarceration could not occur," Barkow writes. "The mass numbers of cases require mass processing, and you cannot have that ...

In a pair of rulings Thursday, judges in California and Maryland found the administration acted unlawfully when it directed mass layoffs of an unspecified number of the federal government's ...

The nation faces very alarming rates of mass incarceration and heavy racial disparities. According to the Sentencing Project, two million people are incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails ...

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty ...

Related: Man takes plea deal in 2021 Albany mass shooting that killed 1, wounded 6 More than 70 shell casings fired from several handguns were recovered in the aftermath of the shooting ...