Attorney says, when it comes to prison reform, "our Legislature continues to do the bare minimum for the people of ...

California lawmakers are pressing prison officials over a 2024 pepper spray assault at the state’s largest women’s prison, as Louisiana advances a prison data transparency bill and multiple states ...

Police are preparing for a surge in crime that could see hundreds of thousands more offences committed in just one year, if Government prison sentence reforms go ahead. Plans proposed under the ...

The First Step Act represented one of the most significant federal prison reform efforts in decades. Passed with bipartisan support in 2018, the law was intended to reduce recidivism, expand ...

Despite Trump’s punitive spectacles, criminal justice reform efforts persist across states, and there’s hope for effective policies.

Judge Bennett retired from the federal bench in 2019, and is now Director Emeritus of the Institute for Justice Reform & Innovation at Drake University Law School. Judge Bennett retired from the ...

South Dakota’s Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force meets Wednesday in Sioux Falls to discuss a prison seminary program, behavioral health at the new Rapid City women’s prison and public input.

Missouri’s moniker as the Show-Me State is said to originate from a Congressman who said that his midwestern roots preferred ...

The Communities Not Cages campaign is advocating for the passage of three sentencing reform bills in the 2026 legislative session: the Second Look Act, the Earned Time Act and the Marvin Mayfield Act.

CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire prison inmates would be paroled at least nine months before their maximum sentences end so they can be supervised as they transition back into their communities, under ...

LWV-Mobile caps off its 2015-16 season with Federal Defender Carlos Williams, who will draw upon four decades of fighting in the courtroom for poor and disadvantaged clients, as the League continues ...