Bill de Blasio and the correctional officers’ union say the crisis at Rikers Island is about understaffing. But no number of guards will solve the underlying problems with the jail.

Trump was not charged in the indictments handed down by the Manhattan district attorney, but his legal and financial perils still continue to mount.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to spring the serial rapist from his sentence is an absolute farce.

An uptick in homicides across the country is getting blamed on reforms. That argument gets the data all wrong.

An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.

His recent ruling shreds a precedent that offered criminal defendants a chance to challenge unjust sentences—and reveals how the court’s conservative bloc has no boundaries.

Frank G. Jackson rose to power in Cleveland as a champion of the people. But a lawsuit says he has used his influence to protect his family from the law.

“I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote.”

The high court’s irreconcilable conflict over the sentencing of young criminals is a product of the mess the former justice left behind.

Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke are eminently qualified for senior positions in the Justice Department. So why are Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton painting these two nonwhite women as radicals?

Biden has taken some critical first steps in making the Department of Justice more representative of America, but there’s more work to be done.

Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.

Pollsters keep tripping over contradictions in how communities of color talk about cops.

A jury spared Calvin McMillan’s life, but a judge sentenced him to death anyway. Will the Roberts court save or condemn him?

Why Black officers have to be at the forefront of efforts to transform America’s racist police culture.

In her historic DNC speech, the former prosecutor elided most of her resume to craft a different image of her record.

The George Floyd protests have spread to the heavily white areas of rural Ohio. Only time will tell whether the alliance will last.

A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.

Inside the hell of solitary confinement

An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.