Below, I tell the story of Jannell, a Bronx public school employee charged with felony insurance fraud based largely on a mistaken date and a false prosecutorial theory. Her case was eventually ...

Jillian E. Snider, Resident Senior Fellow of Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, R Street Institute Testimony in Support of HI H.B. 2494, “Relating to Criminal Justice Reform.” February 19, ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Today’s column is my busman’s holiday project: providing nerd-like numbers and ...

Criminal defense lawyers are tracking when the Justice Department appears to rely on irregular charging practices, including ...

A judicial regulation signed by the leadership of the Islamic Emirate in 2026 institutionalizes a penal hierarchy based on social status. The text ...

An engineer by training, he used systems theory and quantitative analysis to examine criminal behavior, revealing the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the president of the Law Society of England and Wales The shocking backlogs in the criminal ...

If you've ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each Monday, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what ...

2025 was a turbulent year, with the courts at the centre of national contestation. From the aftermath of the Gen-Z protests—where youths were charged with terrorism—to police chiefs seeking to clear ...

A decade ago, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to eliminate cash bail. The ballot question was simple, but what we voted on was complicated. Whether you knew it ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Criminal Justice Oversight Council, a bipartisan body composed of lawmakers, corrections officials and justice stakeholders, gathered at the University of Montana on Nov.

“If we’re indicting people because the president hates them, that’s counter to the whole point of doing my job.” “Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; our job was to find the facts ...