Tune out the noise and know this: former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi is the force we need to fix the Department of Justice, and Americans can rest assured that weaponizing any part of our ...

Ending the prosecutor vacancy crisis and protecting the criminal justice system will require a larger investment.

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is in the news in 2024 because its prosecutor has asked the court to issue warrants for ...

Back in the early 1990s, there was a bar association forum devoted to the nascent and growing problem-solving court movement. After I raised some questions about the “we’re all in this together” ...

In the 1980s, Haner Hernández only requested to attend a drug treatment program in order to get out of prison. Back then, he was only approved to be released from prison and go into treatment because ...

“The result is an inefficient and ineffective system that is unable to provide the treatment and rehabilitation to stop people from repeatedly cycling through the criminal justice system,” the report ...

The investigative reporters on WBEZ’s criminal justice desk tell the stories of the thousands of individuals churning through the legal systems every year in Chicago, Cook County and Illinois and hold ...

There’s a concept in psychotherapy called supporting self-efficacy. It’s a core strategy to help people reach their goals: You find something positive the person did, no matter how big or small, and ...

County Commission Chairman Ed Turanchik thinks the term criminal justice system is a misnomer. "There is no system," Turanchik said. "There are people carrying out their constitutional and statutory ...

Five years ago this month, Donald Trump signed a major sentencing and prison reform bill into law. Known as the First Step Act, the law was wildly popular with Congress and the public, giving Trump a ...

I’m dismayed by the use of the term “homelessness” in the city of Vancouver’s recent emergency declaration for problems more closely associated with a completely broken criminal justice system that ...