Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal maintains a landmark criminal justice law — heading off concerns she'd make changes that ...

Termaine Hicks, who was exonerated after spending 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, will share his ...

The Supreme Court ruled that restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act is criminal punishment, and that the ...

A pair of handcuffs poking through prison bars. Most bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice system failed in the session, though advocates were encouraged by the progress of some proposals.

Governor Kathy Hochul sometimes reminds me of my first teachers, the mostly Irish nuns from the Dominican Sisters order who ran the Annunciation School on West 131st Street in Harlem in the 1960s. I ...

Last month, voters in Shelby County, Tennessee, ousted an 11-year incumbent district attorney with a national reputation for being overly-punitive. Amy Weirich aggressively pursued the death penalty, ...

Little Rock-based prison reform advocacy group decARcerate, along with Northwest Arkansas-based Arkansas Justice Reform ...

Criminal justice reform advocacy groups plan to support bills targeting parole, prison conditions and the death penalty in the 2026 Alabama legislative session. But advocates also acknowledged that ...

Lefty New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani says NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will fall behind his vision for criminal-justice reforms, insisting that if he wins the race, “everyone will ...

North Carolina's Senate Republicans overcame a roadblock to pass a new bill Monday that would usher in a series of changes to the criminal justice system. It came in response to last month's deadly ...