Criminal Justice Reform

Fifteen men had their tainted convictions vacated by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office, but this isn’t the norm when it comes to prosecutors.

“Kiss your boyfriend goodbye.”

The five states that have done away with commercial bond outlets still struggle with inequity when it comes to cash bail.

So far, the report card on the “Mexican Biker” prosecutor is mixed.

A new app seeks to liberate people from more than “liberal malaise.”

Rallies & petitions grow for the rapper Meek Mill
I want to preface what I’m about to say by first making it clear that I’m not a Meek Mill fan.

Retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, Katherine, a deputy prosecutor, have been arrested on multiple federal charges, including conspiracy, making false statements to federal officers, obstruction and bank fraud.

Community members are cautiously optimistic, but wary of the program’s emergence during election season.

Talk of bail reform in Nashville is getting an assist from recently released data showing that the majority of individuals arrested for misdemeanors remain in jail until their cases are concluded.

Will the state with the second highest incarceration rate get its act together?

The City Controller’s report calls on the DA’s office to “dismantle the current cash bail system”

A law that results in disproportionate arrests and prosecutions of black and Latino New Yorkers will stand.

Alameda and Santa Clara County jail detainees round out the first week of a hunger strike for better conditions.

Criminal charges are absent from 85 percent of all forfeiture cases in the city.

I am going to switch it up today. Instead of giving you this week’s stories of horrible injustice, which Lord knows there is a long list of those stories to tell this week, I want us to have a serious conversation about how we make change happen in this country.

A movement to oust Cyrus Vance gains steam.

A local solution to a national problem.