If he is confirmed, Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to fill retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court, will have the opportunity to influence a host of criminal ...

A prisoner is in long-term solitary confinement. For six months, he has been on isolation status, and has been allowed nothing other than some hygiene products and clothing. Down the cellblock ...

Courts often agree to keep the details about wrongful convictions confidential. But if we’re serious about learning from these tragedies, the public deserves to know more than just the ...

The replacement for departing Attorney General William Barr should be aggressive in holding corporate bosses accountable for their misconduct, write two whistleblower lawyers. Their candidate ...

Generous open-carry firearm policies, relaxed assault threat rules, and weak or nonexistent “duties to retreat” have laid the foundation for a scaled-down version on U.S. streets of the ...

In last week’s Shinn v Ramirez ruling, the Supreme Court dangerously accelerated the process of getting federal courts out of the business of enforcing rights, argues TCR’s legal columnist ...

The Tap In Center is an experimental service that launched at the Florissant Valley Branch of the St. Louis County Library in fall 2020. At the center, volunteer attorneys work with people who ...

When I started covering prison education last year, I sent out a lot of messages asking people what kinds of educational programs were offered at their prisons. It took Jennifer Graves, who is ...

As Democratic presidential contenders squared off last week, a TCR columnist said "reimagining" the US prison system was among the few issues that had potential for winning bipartisan support.

Despite being placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email chain that included pictures that were determined to negatively portray Black people, and that bore the ...

The nation’s top police chiefs recently decided to stop distributing semi-annual data about violent crimes. That’s a worrying mistake, says a leading criminologist.

Instead of trying to fix individual parts of the justice system, states should create a single regulatory agency that manages police, courts and corrections, proposes an Oregon Law Review paper.