Nearly 2.5 million women and girls in the United States are released from prison and jail each year, and the sooner they obtain employment, the better their chances are for successful reentry into the ...

Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven. Walker co-chairs the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee. Credit: Yehyun Kim / CT Mirror The Connecticut House on Wednesday unanimously passed legislation ...

Ralph is a professor of anthropology and public affairs at Princeton University. His book SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, is out now from Grand Central Publishing It was dark ...

Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. Sign up to receive “Life Inside” emailed to you every week. We also commissioned artist Chris Cortez to draw portraits of each ...

For nearly three decades, President Biden heralded the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which he shepherded through Congress in 1994, as a clear-cut victory that made women safer. The reality is a ...

Women are not believed, one legal whitepaper finds. “Laws meant to protect women and deter further abuse often fail to achieve their purpose, because women telling stories of abuse by their male ...