In her high school law class, she’s studied verdicts that have left her with big questions about the justice system—like how ...

Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

President has ‘succeeded in completely politicizing’ justice department, experts say, using it to punish his enemies Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has increasingly become his ...

A new leader is heading up Louisiana’s juvenile justice system after Kenny Loftin, who headed the Office of Juvenile Justice for two years, retired, officials said. In January, Gov. Jeff Landry ...

A new bill from state Rep. Andrea White, R-Kettering, looks to improve the way Ohio’s courts, law enforcement departments, prosecutors, penal institutions, and the attorney general’s office track and ...

In a bipartisan move, Congress passed a measure to provide $4 million worth of funding to construct a national center to help veterans ensnared in the criminal justice system. The funds, part of the ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

WASHINGTON — Late last year, as President Donald Trump was publicly intensifying his attacks against Federal Reserve and Chairman Jerome Powell, federal prosecutors quietly began a criminal ...

CBS Colorado continues to report the major concerns and response to the massive volume of digital evidence officials say is crippling the state's criminal justice system. The Colorado First Judicial ...

Over the course of eight years in office, Gov. Phil Murphy took on the tough challenges of fixing the state's outdated criminal justice system by balancing two imperatives: safety and fairness. The ...

A decade ago, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to eliminate cash bail. The ballot question was simple, but what we voted on was complicated. Whether you knew it ...

In 2025, through evocative illustrations and photography, The Marshall Project’s visual storytelling tackled themes of deplorable jail conditions, judicial power, the racist origins of the juvenile ...