Police in Burlington, Vermont have arrested a man in connection with the shooting of three Palestinian college students and are investigating the shooting as a possibly “hate-motivated” crime ...

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 Justice Department watchdog report reveals that the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee in Florida is operating far below acceptable standards in caring for and housing its prison ...

A San Jose, California, police officer was fired after an investigation revealed he had sent a number of racist text messages, Rebecca Cohen reports for NBC News. The former officer, Mark McNamara ...

A recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative found that Black people make up the majority of Connecticut’s prison population, Edwin J. Viera reports for the Public News Service. Despite ...

Hardy Lloyd, a self-identified “reverend” of white supremacy who called Pittsburgh synagogue shooter a “lone wolf hero” for his attack that killed 11 at the Tree of Life in 2018, pleaded ...

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.

The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would make interfering with a police officer and causing their death a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

The Riverside County Superior Court in California has dismissed three separate child sexual assault cases, including one with a potential life sentence, due to the court's inability to begin the ...

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.

“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 ...

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.