Over the years, Massachusetts’s rate of incarceration, as well as its prison population, have been on the decline. At the same time, watchdogs and prison reform advocates continue to call out the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Nonetheless, current polling still shows strong bipartisan support for ...

OPINION: The Trump administration’s erasure of police accountability is an active threat to Black and Brown lives that we must fight against. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As pundits compete to explain the results of this year's presidential ...

Criminal justice reform and police accountability were once center-stage in Democratic politics, but four years after the massive protests of 2020, they've been replaced by more law ...

The Republican Party wants you to be afraid. Very, very afraid. Under former President Donald Trump, the party is playing up fears of violent crime, even as crime rates have fallen from their pandemic ...

Leah Nowotarski, chair of criminal justice section of the New York State Defenders Association. Courtesy photo. The Criminal Justice Section has been instrumental in advocating changes in criminal law ...

Not that long ago, in the summer of 2020, the moment seemed ripe for meaningful criminal-justice reform in America. Millions of people joined demonstrations denouncing the police killings of Breonna ...

In advance of the 2024 presidential election, The Chronicle is breaking down each candidate’s stance on priority issues, examining their platform and political history to keep voters in the Duke and ...

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned for president in 2016 in part by styling himself as a tough-on-crime contender who, if elected, would institute a national anti-crime agenda, crack down on ...

Our country, like any entity, is a tapestry woven from both triumphs and failures, marked by periods of greatness and shadows of injustice. Has America ever been great? Without question, ...

According to a 2018 projection by the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform advocacy organization, one out of every three Black boys born in 2001 will be imprisoned at some point during his ...