Criminal justice reform was peddled to voters as being about poor, underprivileged souls serving harsh sentences for smoking ...

"People do have a right to celebrate a guilty verdict," said activist Katherin Hervey. "However, our calls for extremely hard sentencing are really just doing more violence." ...

Five years ago this month, Donald Trump signed a major sentencing and prison reform bill into law. Known as the First Step Act, the law was wildly popular with Congress and the public, giving Trump a ...

Black voters in critical background states want to see federal and state governments tackle criminal justice reform, according to a national poll released Wednesday. The poll conducted by BSG on ...

Adam “PacMan” Jones told me in an interview that it is difficult to watch so many people being put into prison for decades. “This sh*$ got to stop,” Jones told me, “you got one guy doing ayahuasca and ...

Not that long ago, in the summer of 2020, the moment seemed ripe for meaningful criminal-justice reform in America. Millions of people joined demonstrations denouncing the police killings of Breonna ...

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned for president in 2016 in part by styling himself as a tough-on-crime contender who, if elected, would institute a national anti-crime agenda, crack down on ...

In advance of the 2024 presidential election, The Chronicle is breaking down each candidate’s stance on priority issues, examining their platform and political history to keep voters in the Duke and ...

Leading into the COVID pandemic, one of the biggest things the left was pushing for wasn't lockdowns, shutting down private businesses, or any of the hysteria they engaged in starting after Joe Biden ...

A pair of handcuffs poking through prison bars. Most bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice system failed in the session, though advocates were encouraged by the progress of some proposals.