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 ...

In last week’s Shinn v Ramirez ruling, the Supreme Court dangerously accelerated the process of getting federal courts out of the business of enforcing rights, argues TCR’s legal columnist ...

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 ...

Despite being placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email chain that included pictures that were determined to negatively portray Black people, and that bore the ...

A former incarceree and a former probation officer say a proposed "Clean Slate" bill in Louisiana to streamline the expungement process is an example of how states can couple accountability with ...

The nation’s top police chiefs recently decided to stop distributing semi-annual data about violent crimes. That’s a worrying mistake, says a leading criminologist.

Instead of trying to fix individual parts of the justice system, states should create a single regulatory agency that manages police, courts and corrections, proposes an Oregon Law Review paper.

Veteran St. Louis Officer Lt. Col. Troy Doyle was the favored candidate to become the city’s first Black police chief, but the county’s Board of Police Commissioners picked a white officer ...

“Chronically understaffed Texas prisons set stage for prison bus escape and massacre of family” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that ...

Salemme, who once helmed the Patriarca crime family in Boston, died last Tuesday in prison custody at 89 years old while serving a life sentence for the murder of a nightclub owner.

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to tackle “the harsh realities” of America’s justice systems, says a forthcoming paper published in the Colorado Law Review Forum.

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 ...