This is part of the “Confronting the Women’s Incarceration Crisis” series, where we examine what is driving more women into ...

OpEd: if Kentucky wants safer communities and stronger families, we must build a justice system that recognizes women's ...

The Council on Criminal Justice Women's Justice Commission has released its first policy report. Former AG Loretta Lynch and First Lady of Oklahoma Sarah Stitt join Morning Joe to discuss.

DAKOTA CITY -- Nebraska State Patrol Trooper Tina Cleveland yanks portable truck scales out from the back of the patrol truck she shares with her field training officer and sets them up beside U.S.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Hampden County Sheriff’s Department hosted its 28th annual Women in Criminal Justice Conference at the Sheraton in downtown Springfield on Thursday, its largest in its ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Hawaiʻi State Judiciary honored the first six graduates of the Mohala Wahine, also known as Women’s Court, program during a ceremony at the Supreme Court on June 25. Mohala ...

In Georgia and across this country, Black women survivors of domestic violence are often invisible until we are put on trial, either in the criminal legal system or in the court of public opinion. The ...

UNITED NATIONS — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” the independent U.N. investigator ...