It’s a mistake to think that criminal justice accountability and addressing root causes of crime in Chicago are mutually exclusive.

The Maryland General Assembly passed three bills that aim to reform the state's criminal justice system. Gov. Wes Moore signed more than 90 bills into law after the end of the 2025 legislative session ...

Ralph is a professor of anthropology and public affairs at Princeton University. His book SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, is out now from Grand Central Publishing It was dark ...

Here is a snapshot of the dramatic changes to four branches of law enforcement. In the span of a single week, the U.S. criminal justice system endured unprecedented upheaval, as law enforcement ...

New research from the University of Kansas asks if mental health issues like depression and anxiety are associated with ...

Josh Spickler and Yonée Gibson discuss issues affecting the local criminal justice system. Just City’s Executive Director Josh Spickler and Just City’s Program and People Experience Manager Yonée ...

Last week, the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code and California Policy Lab published a report looking at the recidivism ...

A significant percentage of criminal defendants have mental health disorders, but our courts have few options to address these disorders that have brought these individuals into the criminal justice ...

They’ve struggled with addiction. They’ve struggled with abuse and trauma. They’ve struggled with mental health issues. And those struggles have led to time behind bars. This month the nonprofit ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the second of a two-part series regarding the rise of violent crimes committed by juveniles in Southeast Texas and the effort to give teens new life outside of the ...