The Biden administration's criminal justice reform efforts have been criticized for relying on short-term measures and political signaling rather than durable policy changes, leaving the system ...

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The Prison Policy Initiative has released a report challenging the effectiveness of specialty courts as an alternative to ...

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, ...

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 thousands ...