Should wealthy litigants be able to rent state judges and courthouses to decide cases in private and keep the results secret? The answer...

As many as 300 people who were sentenced to death in the United States over a three-decade period were likely innocent. Dozens of...

The Rikers Island prison complex in the Queens borough of New York. Photo Credit: Mike Segar/Reuters New York has paid out the most of...

Racial disparities have long been evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, but a new report drilling into statistics on wrongful...

For a shocking glimpse of whats been happening in the name of criminal justice in America, look no further than a Justice Department...

Civil asset forfeiture lets police seize and keep cash and property from people who are never convicted - and in many cases, even...

Civil asset forfeiture allows the government, without ever securing a conviction or even filing a criminal charge, to seize property. The...

In the late summer of 2020, Bruce Bartman went to Pennsylvania’s voter registration website and signed up his mother and mother-in-law to...

Pope Francis will meet more than 100 men and women from a dangerously overcrowded prison population. Some 80% of those inmates at that...

Los Angeles has sentenced more people to death than any other county in the US, and only people of color have received the death penalty...

The Justice Department is asking local courts across the country to be wary of how they slap poor defendants with fines and fees. In a...

There were 149 people exonerated in the United States last year after being wrongly convicted of crimes. More than a third of the people...

The US criminal justice system is a broken machine that wrongfully convicts innocent people, sentencing thousands of people to prison or...

More than six years after the FBI crime laboratory was rocked by controversy, the Justice Department has identified about 3,000 criminal...

In the annals of wrongful convictions, there is nothing that comes close in size to the epic drug-lab scandal that is entering its...

With the recent news that the Biden administration will end the COVID-19 public health emergencies this spring, it is time to take stock...

What do you say to someone who spent years on death row for a murder DNA evidence later proved he didn't commit? It's a question that...

America has been enmeshed in a wrenching discussion about how the police treat young black men. But this weeks blistering report from the...

(senior federal district judge) Jed A. Rakoffs essay in The New York Review of Books tries to explain why innocent people so often plead...

The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public...