Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new initiative into law enabling Illinois residents who’ve served sentences for nonviolent offenses ...

For the first time, a Georgia prisoner has been resentenced and released from custody under a new state law that considers ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Clean Slate Act into law Friday, which will automatically seal criminal records of nonviolent ...

A former inmate has warned controversial new Australian laws could have the unintended effect of turning young offenders into ...

Why the killings haven’t stopped, a push for better prison health care and Jackson moves closer to hiring a police chief.

Houston rapper OMB Bloodbath is on trial in federal court, accused of leading a gang and helping plan a deadly 2017 shooting.

CHICAGO — Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed ...

The] Clean Slate [Act] matters to me because it's one of the strongest tools we have to remove barriers that keep our people ...

As the Louisiana Integrated Criminal Justice Information System (ICJIS) Policy Board concludes its work for the year, the ...

Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they ...

The Justice Department is once again at the center of the news, with investigations of federal lawmakers, the chairman of the ...