Max Rivlin-Nadler

The passage of Senate Bill 10 would decimate the bail industry, but many advocates say it falls short of true reform.

Under ‘Operation Streamline,’ Border Patrol has become responsible for the housing and transporting of immigrants.

‘Operation Streamline’ speeds up immigration prosecutions.

Bolus is one of thousands of New Yorkers sentenced to life in prison who are waiting for the governor to keep his clemency promise.

Earl McNeil’s family is demanding answers from the National City, California, police department.

New bail funds aren’t just getting immigrants out of detention—they’re helping them stay in the country permanently.

Defense attorneys say they’ll have only minutes to meet with their clients before the immigrants are convicted en masse.

Did a Louisiana police chief and a prosecutor cross a line when they issued televised threats to a man who’d just been granted relief by a federal appeals court in a child killing?

As a consequence, authorities are keeping them in cells for 22 to 23 hours a day, according to Oregon’s federal public defender.

Public defenders say immigrants arrested under Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy are being denied their due process rights.

Across the state, most incumbents successfully fended off progressive challengers during the June 5 primary.

But their push to unseat judges is drawing backlash from a surprising source—fellow Democrats.

In the early spring of 2013, Yolanda and Jessie Smith, an African American couple, agreed to accept what they believed were packages of cancer medicine for a 58-year-old white man named Alvin Phillips, whom they knew from a pool hall in Waggaman, Louisiana, a tiny town comprised of about 10,000 residents near New Orleans.

In an effort to avoid newly-installed surveillance cameras in search areas, Rikers Island correctional officers take female visitors to nearby bathrooms to strip-search them, according to several women and a new report by the Jails Action Coalition. Five women have now filed notices of claim (which signal an intention to sue the city) with the city’s comptroller over their treatment in Rikers bathrooms, alleging that correctional officers sexually abused them.

A New York State grand jury indicted Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove on charges of official misconduct and perjury on Friday afternoon. The indictment stems from Abelove’s concealment of evidence about the shooting of an unarmed black man by a Troy police officer, and allegations that Abelove lied during a subsequent investigation.