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 ...

Allen J. Schaben // Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The seemingly endless cycle of reforms in juvenile justice. On Sep. 3, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the state will try to shut down ...

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

In 2019, Senator Harris introduced a criminal justice reform plan for federal criminal court that would end mandatory minimum sentences and limit solitary confinement and the federal death penalty, as ...

In courtrooms across the world, including the United States, child victims of sexual violence are expected to play by rules that were never made for them. They are asked to recall precise dates, ...

One practice in Virginia jails that perpetuates the cycle of incarceration is the practice of “Keep Fees” or charging inmates ...

In a sense, the British criminal justice system is itself under a kind of “whole life order”, condemned to a never-ending cycle of ever-tougher sentences creating ever-more hopeless, hardened ...

By placing mental health care at the center of justice reform, we can create a system that truly serves and protects our ...

“I think the criminal justice system is really built to deal with individualized problems, not with society as a whole,” Kurt Nachtman, a Baltimore-area defense attorney, said.

In Wisconsin, juvenile justice workers are seeking access to tools used in the adult criminal justice system to manage behavior after a youth counselor was killed in an alleged assault by a 16 ...

Teens who enter the system have a 40% likelihood of winding up back in custody and face a disproportionate chance of dying an early, violent death. Los Angeles County may serve as a cautionary tale ...