criminal justice

New Yorkers say they feel less safe now, though some widely reported data paint a different picture.

The Deep South state is considering reintroducing electrocution and the more recent execution method of oxygen deprivation using nitrogen gas.

By federal law, juveniles cannot be placed in adult prisons. Juveniles may be detained in a jail or lockup for adults for no more than six hours during processing, and in that time, they must have no sight or sound contact with adult inmates according to the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018. The policy went into effect in December 2021. Add to that a huge decline in juvenile detention facilities. In 2000, the Unites States had 3,047 facilities holding 108,802 youth. In 2020, just 1,323 facilities were still open, housing 25,014 youth according to the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. In many cases, law enforcement has no choice but to send violent offenders back home.

Congress increasingly is being defined by what it’s not doing this election year.

NEW YORK— Candie Hailey spent more than three years in a New York City jail, most of it in solitary confinement, before a jury decided she was innocent last year and set her free. Now, prosecutors say she still hasn’t been punished enough.The 32-year...

Criminal justice reform has become a hot topic around the nation amid a conversation about easing three-strikes sentencing laws, scaling back mandatory sentencing laws and focusing on rehabilitation

Students with school absences—some as young as 12 years-old—were being tried in local truancy courts and juvenile courts without a lawyer to represent them.

When being homeless means getting into trouble with the law.