The governor of Washington State on Monday unveiled a new process through which hundreds of people with low-level drug convictions…
President Joe Biden is looking into using his executive authority to grant clemency to people with certain non-violent drug convictions,…
On June 23, 29-year-old Ray Breer walked through the gates of the Western Reception Diagnostic Correctional Center north of Kansas…
Saying the criminal-legal system is a system like saying a forest is a tree. There are over 2,000 local criminal…
Around 90 percent of criminal cases are handled by county court systems, where inflexibility on disproportionately harsh sentencing outcomes is…
The Biden administration has again voiced support for ending a law that punishes possession or distribution of crack cocaine far…
The Democratic primary for Manhattan’s next district attorney was a big mess. Leading up to the June 22 election, there…
On June 8, reporter Sam Mellins tweeted a photo of a January 6, 1999 letter from then-Queens Assistant District Attorney…
On June 15, ahead of the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s declaration of the “War on Drugs,” Democratic Representatives Bonnie Watson…
Prosecutors are famous for saying they don’t make the law, they only enforce it. In recent years, prominent legal scholars…