BOSTON (AP) — During the 22 years he spent in prison after being convicted of killing a Boston police detective, Sean Ellis believed there was something suspicious about the officers who led the ...

Are you the victim of a crime? Do you feel the criminal justice system efficiently assisted you? Have you been in prison, probation or parole? Have you faced barriers related to housing or education?

As if the continuing U.S. confession controversy were not complicated enough, now the custom of joint trials has surfaced to compound the confusion. When a crime involves more than one defendant, most ...

Tune out the noise and know this: former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi is the force we need to fix the Department of Justice, and Americans can rest assured that weaponizing any part of our ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Spring 2024 magazine. You can subscribe here. Nearly a quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the ...

With the election season heating up, there’s a lot of talk about reforming our criminal justice system and the role police and qualified immunity play within that system. But perhaps the biggest ...

Every year the Minnesota Justice Research Center hosts the “Re-Imagining Justice” conference, bringing together stakeholders who want to see a more effective, humane criminal legal system that ...

“In solitary, they are trying to break you without realizing that most people in [prison] are there because someone else already tried to break them.” That’s how Paul Torres, a returning citizen who ...

County Commission Chairman Ed Turanchik thinks the term criminal justice system is a misnomer. "There is no system," Turanchik said. "There are people carrying out their constitutional and statutory ...