Racial disparities in the juvenile justice system are the worst they have ever been, while the number of incarcerated ...

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a survivor of child sexual abuse whose crusade against Jeffrey Epstein led to his arrest and ...

Officials who oversee grants were asked for ideas on clearing homeless encampments and increasing involuntary hospitalization ...

Justice Department asks employees for ideas on how to ‘more efficiently shift chronic vagrants away from the public square ...

Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

Fingerprint evidence has been recognized in India for over a century. The use of fingerprints was officially introduced ...

A recent report from the state comptroller’s office noted inefficiencies in the local criminal justice system. Fixing them ...

Fear is driving schools, corporations and agencies to erase words like “injustice,” “trauma," “socioeconomic” and "women." ...

The sentencing process is a cornerstone of the criminal justice system, directly impacting the credibility, fairness, and effectiveness of judicial administration. An articulate and judicial approach ...

Dozens of visitors to the Eastern State Penitentiary got to experience the challenges of acclimating to post-incarceration life.

One of the five youth who was charged in the attack appeared in court Friday afternoon for sentencing, after she pleaded ...

U.S. officials arrested a Wisconsin judge yesterday and charged her with helping a man in her court briefly evade immigration ...