The jury’s decision highlights the complexities of intimate partner violence and the legacy of the #MeToo movement.

Criminal records, especially including violent or sex offenses, were identified as a barrier for low-income housing, vouchers or market rentals. A lack of good credit, rental history and references is ...

Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the ...

Violence takes many forms, but none corrodes democracy more directly than political violence. Unfortunately, the recent ...

But I’ve also seen how treatment courts can break it.

Last Tuesday, the Republican-American ran a column by Chris Powell lamenting Connecticut lawmakers’ incessant focus on restricting constitutionally protected gun rights as they refuse to keep ...

It said the weakness of institutional independence in investigative procedures made these confessions a “ready-made resolution” that avoided the need for evidence collection, witness examination, or a ...

So, says Dazondria Curry, who worked in the Mississippi Prison System for three years. “Families are hurting we are experiencing tragic loss to our youth to the criminal justice system and it’s a very ...

Ryan Hinton was a teenager, a brother, a son − a neighbor. On May 1, Cincinnati police shot and killed him. His family remembers him as a jokester, a "sweet and gentle giant," full of love and ...

Tristin Murphy, a man with schizophrenia who was in and out of jail because of his mental illness, killed himself while ...

New York's criminal legal system is doing exactly what it was designed to do: warehouse Black and brown people, protect those who brutalize them and uphold a culture of perpetual punishment.

Lucio Vasquez, The Texas Newsroom | June 18, 2025, 5:00 AM (Last Updated: June 18, 2025, 7:07 AM) ...