Some states keep adding beds in already troubled facilities, while others are trying alternative approaches to detention or ...

Report warns U.S. criminal justice policies fail to address women’s needs, urging prevention, treatment and family-centered ...

District Attorney Larry Krasner has never been one to temper his words. When he first campaigned to be the city’s top ...

After three decades presiding over a Miami-Dade County courtroom, a meteoric rise as a criminal justice advocate and international recognition from the late Pope Francis, Judge Steven Leifman has ...

As the media and the debates made clear, the question of crime, and the perception of crime, took on prominence in the mayoral election. While Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa proposed adding ...

The University of Delaware’s Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice is internationally recognized for its research, faculty, and academic programs, including a top-ranked graduate criminology ...

As an erstwhile drummer, I was drawn to the movie Whiplash, in which an abusive music instructor played by J.K. Simmons pushes his promising drum student nearly over the brink in his pursuit of ...

The Justice, Understanding, Societal Trust, and Literacy, Attendance and Writing program — also known as JUST LAW — has kicked off its eighth year.

A man accused of killing a Hinds County Sheriff's Office Corrections Sergeant has a significant criminal history. Ladarien ...

James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi, a Kenyan immigrant, was arrested in late October and transferred to a detention center in Conroe.