Progress is being made on the new Hinds County jail. Nearly three years after breaking ground on the Hinds County Criminal ...

Despite the opioid crisis’ deadly toll, U.S police treat drug use as a criminal issue. But in the Netherlands, a public ...

An examination of Sedgwick County’s bail system found practices that exacerbate inequality within the criminal justice system, leading advocates to request change.

Supreme Judicial Court Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt is weighing whether to invoke protocol that could lead to the release of criminal defendants who have no lawyers amid a work stoppage.

Criminal records, especially including violent or sex offenses, were identified as a barrier for low-income housing, vouchers or market rentals. A lack of good credit, rental history and references is ...

Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the ...

The nonprofit Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (WBTP) and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) are carrying out a pilot ...

FBI crime reports reviewed by CBS News show assaults or attacks against people at churches, synagogues, temples and mosques ...

Erryonne Watts, a senior criminal justice student minoring in psychology and sociology at Purdue University Northwest, shares her semester long research on Linda Stermer's 2007 case Thursday.

Greg Bishop discusses several issues raised at the statehouse about criminal justice, including changes Republicans say are needed for the state's no cash bail law, a bill heading to the governor ...

Democratic State Rep. Justin Slaughter of Chicago, a progressive on criminal justice issues who sponsored the sweeping 2021 criminal justice reforms known as the SAFE-T Act, acknowledged that for ...

The Comptroller said its review team interviewed more than 70 people and spent more than 100 hours at the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center researching more than 1,000 cases between Jan. 1 ...