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

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 ...

Colorado’s governor has not approved any of the program’s graduates for early release since 2023 — an about-face from the ...

Punishment provides immediate, visible results, while empowering youth requires patience, understanding and time.

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

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

Mercy is set in a near-future Los Angeles where justice is meted out by an AI dubbed the Mercy Program, a system Chris ...

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

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

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