Courts often agree to keep the details about wrongful convictions confidential. But if we’re serious about learning from these tragedies, the public deserves to know more than just the ...

The Tap In Center is an experimental service that launched at the Florissant Valley Branch of the St. Louis County Library in fall 2020. At the center, volunteer attorneys work with people who ...

Before the Black Lives Matter protests triggered similar manifestations of anger in many nations, the U.S. had already spent decades spreading its tough-on-crime, security-oriented philosophy ...

Long before the current probe into Russian meddling in US elections, Soviet and US intelligence agents were operating out of the National Press Building in Washington, DC to covertly influence ...

Experts gathered at Virginia's George Mason University to discuss how to analyze mass violence incidents, react to them and possibly to stop them from happening.

In an interview, Brooke Jenkins emphasized that the city has to go back to holding repeat offenders and repeat violent offenders accountable.

The Mayor of London and the Home Secretary are shifting their position on the tenure of Dame Cressida Dick as the Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police. They are now openly critical of ...

Just before announcing his presidential run, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted his once-vocal support for stop-and-frisk tactics was wrong. But his apology raises more questions ...

The public health response to COVID-19 has failed prisoners, according to a new paper published by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Jails and prisons are increasingly ...

At least 423 victims of domestic abuse, 601 victims of human trafficking and 749 of “modern-day slavery” were reported to immigration enforcement during the same time period.

Mass transit systems across the country have been coping with an increase in assaults by riders angered by requirements to wear face coverings. Budget cuts to police will make enforcement harder ...

The decision to shelve the 40-member commission and abandon DOJ’s Forensic Science Discipline Reviews is a "troubling" step backwards in efforts to apply scientific knowledge to trial evidence ...