Kira Lerner

District Attorney Margaret Moore continues to face accusations that her office mishandles the prosecution of sex crimes.

The Appeal spoke with the lawmaker about her “entirely new blueprint for a just society.”

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and MacArthur Justice Center are filing a class action lawsuit against Doug Evans on behalf of every potential Black juror in the district.

Under the proposal, localities would be incentivized to significantly decrease prison populations.

A claimed victory in Kentucky and wins in Virginia mean hundreds of thousands of people could have their right to vote restored.

Report attempts to discredit decades of research on the adolescent mind.

A Prisoner Review Board memo released in July requires a minimum of 12 hours of movement with ankle monitors, but some people say they’re still being given far less.

An EEOC complaint documents allegations against Owens, former managing attorney in the Jackson office of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund said it doesn’t want to ‘prop up an unjust system.’

A series of victories for advocates reflects a shift in the ‘popular narrative’ around bail.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala has gotten into the surveillance game, but advocates say that raises questions about his role.

Advocates warn that overuse of ankle monitors and other forms of electronic monitoring produce consequences of their own.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is partnering with a technology nonprofit to expunge tens of thousands of minor marijuana convictions. Other jurisdictions could follow.

A lawsuit is challenging Mohave County’s practice of charging certain people for mandatory GPS monitoring before trial.

In the wake of the Dayton shooting, Gov. Mike DeWine proposed creating more space in psychiatric hospitals by removing some people who are court-ordered to be there.

A new report shows that a progressive approach, like the one advanced by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, can help decrease jail populations—and crime.

Lawyers and advocates in Miami-Dade County will roll out a new plan to counter the disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions.

Expert reports in a 2017 federal lawsuit explore an alleged pattern of discrimination against men perceived to be gay.

A company in Cleveland County exemplifies how for-profit legal services affect poor and vulnerable individuals.

Right now, only the whitest states—Maine and Vermont—allow prisoners to vote. Washington, D.C., could change that.

Critics say that Arlington County Commonwealth Attorney Theo Stamos, who is being challenged in a June primary, has a pattern of treating children too harshly.

U.S. attorneys in D.C. have opposed the resentencing of all 14 people who have petitioned for early release under a local law.

A civil rights lawsuit claims officers pepper sprayed him, stripped him naked, and then surrounded him and beat him to death.

‘The bill forces attorneys to choose between violating our ethical mandates or going to jail for following them.’

Florida is poised to pass a law that imposes a ‘poll tax’ on thousands of formerly incarcerated people.

The Orleans district attorney has said that violent youth are the city’s biggest crime problem.

The legislation is part of a wave of bills across the country meant to criminalize mistakes in the name of voter fraud.

Cook County has a new contract for juvenile ankle monitors that critics say are an invasion of privacy.

Lawmakers are redefining certain crimes in order to carve out broad exceptions to who can regain the right to vote.

There are more than 2,700 people on electronic monitoring in Cook County, Illinois, alone.

A lawsuit challenging cash bail in St. Louis could help close a notorious jail.

Lawmakers are debating whether to let people with felony convictions vote—but there could be a catch.

The state uses solitary at one of the highest rates in the nation.

Federal defenders say the shutdown is hurting poor people stuck in jail.

But more than 1,100 others are still serving sentences that voters decided were too harsh.

Muslim prisoners, meanwhile, say they were starved during Ramadan and deprived of religious texts.

In Travis County, detectives refused training that would have helped them interview victims of trauma.

Dozens of former detainees at the Gwinnett County jail in Georgia claim they were subjected to brutality at the hands of its Rapid Response Team.

Attorney General Jeff Landry has taken a number of extreme positions on policing and sentencing in response to reform.

Taking electronic monitoring to the next level.