A jury trial is “always going to be an important part of the criminal justice system”, a minister has said, as proposed ...

The U.S. criminal justice system directly impacts 6.6 million people costing more than $80 billion per year. This profoundly broken system is marred by racial disparities, extractive business ...

SAFE Justice takes a broad-based approach to criminal justice reform, just like Texas and more than two dozen states that have reformed their systems, tackling “front end” policies like ...

But without good data on the criminal justice system, we’re missing the mark. Public and valid data leads to better decisions, more accountability and increased trust in government institutions.

Many leading criminal justice advocacy organizations considered 2023 to be their most productive year in a long time, as 35 states passed legislation recognizing the inequities in our current syste… ...

Two Court of Appeals judges, one from the Ninth Circuit and one from the Fourth Circuit, debated the pros and cons of criminal justice issues such as mandatory minimums and over-criminalization.

Criminal justice reform doesn't end system's racial bias Efforts still leave black men more likely to be arrested, sentenced and imprisoned for the same behavior. Leah Sakala and Nicole D. Porter.

Criminal justice reform is attracting an odd-couple alliance of right and left, but will that be enough to get a bill through Congress? There's bipartisan backing, but it's unclear if that's enough.

This ability for the criminal justice system to see itself through data, to see where it's effective and where it needs to reform, has never been possible before.

There is widespread agreement that our criminal justice system is in need of reform, if not comprehensive overhaul. But beyond easy generalizations, there are few clear ideas about what should be ...

There is no question that the criminal justice system is deeply flawed. At the end of 2007, for example, ... In the end, the urgent need for criminal justice reform is twofold.

The Brookings Institution held a discussion to examine ways to make changes to the criminal justice system's use of fees, fines, and bail. Experts and advocates in this panel focused on the how ...