Debbie Hines draws on her legal career in Baltimore to show what redemption looks like in practice.

A K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department in the Times Square subway station in 2023. A K5 robot used by the New ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

Crime permeates our social fabric. It always has because we are all deviant and deviance is an underpinning of criminality. Whether you believe people are born criminals or socialized to become so, we ...

It was dark and windy the evening of Sunday, September 8, 2019, when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—everyone called him Sito—and his girlfriend, Ariana Bassard, left his girlfriend’s mother’s new apartment in ...

Karla Juarez had just settled in behind her small desk on the fifth floor of the Multnomah County Courthouse when a deputy district attorney walked in. The prosecutor had grim news about a bail ...

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...