Ralph is a professor of anthropology and public affairs at Princeton University. His book SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, is out now from Grand Central Publishing It was dark ...

Members of San Francisco's Public Defender's Office participate in a rally, including defender Elizabeth Camacho, center. (San Francisco Public Defender's Office / Courthouse News) BERKELEY, Calif.

The Maryland General Assembly passed three bills that aim to reform the state's criminal justice system. Gov. Wes Moore signed more than 90 bills into law after the end of the 2025 legislative session ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

It has become clear that our criminal justice system in many states has been broken by weak laws, weak prosecutors, and weak ...

Josh Spickler and Yonée Gibson discuss issues affecting the local criminal justice system. Just City’s Executive Director Josh Spickler and Just City’s Program and People Experience Manager Yonée ...

Here is a snapshot of the dramatic changes to four branches of law enforcement. In the span of a single week, the U.S. criminal justice system endured unprecedented upheaval, as law enforcement ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...

They’ve struggled with addiction. They’ve struggled with abuse and trauma. They’ve struggled with mental health issues. And those struggles have led to time behind bars. This month the nonprofit ...

A significant percentage of criminal defendants have mental health disorders, but our courts have few options to address these disorders that have brought these individuals into the criminal justice ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the second of a two-part series regarding the rise of violent crimes committed by juveniles in Southeast Texas and the effort to give teens new life outside of the ...