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Juvenile justice reform should start with decisions young people can understand

A 10-state review of juvenile justice laws points to a more immediate test for reform: Do young people understand what happens next? The post Juvenile justice reform should start w...

Community Forum: Reverse-engineering the ideal criminal justice system

"The goal of an ideal criminal justice system is to create a society and economy in which citizens have no motivation to offend."

Gov. Meyer signs 3 Delaware criminal justice reform bills

Gov. Matt Meyer signed three Delaware criminal justice reform bills aimed at reducing court debt for low-income people, protecting digital privacy and improving reentry support.

Bail reform remains major issue in NY governor's race, 7 years after it became law

Miquel Powell runs the Reentry and Community Development Center in Rochester. Repeat offenders are a big talking point in the governor's race. [ more › ]

‘Willie Horton’ Is Back. Criminal Justice Reform Never Left.

A familiar tough-on-crime election strategy is making a comeback, even as Republican and Democratic lawmakers keep passing reforms across the country.

Why America's Prisons Keep Failing

C.J. Ciaramella discusses 250 years of prison reform, the crisis facing state prisons, and whether America can build a more humane system.

Connecticut Takes Key Step in Reforming Mental Health System

By seeking to divert certain individuals away from prison, new state behavioral health court recognizes people shouldn’t be punished for their mental illness.

The End of the Mass Incarceration Myth

Contrary to popular belief that our criminal justice system is broken, the United States seems to be experiencing a virtuous cycle in which crime and incarceration decline in tande...

The Unheralded End of Mass Incarceration

America’s prison population i...

UN Expert Mechanism calls for racial justice reform of drug laws to address systemic discrimination

The International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement warned on Thursday that harsh drug laws and policies continue to play a rol...

Banning Flock Won't Be Enough Without Police Reform

It was Flock that led cops to the wrong woman. It was police who ignored the other evidence and jailed her.

Prison reform still unfinished

The decision to end a system of impunity and ensure that sentences handed down by the courts are actually served was, from the outset, also a challenge to radically modernize the p...

The Right to Trial is Vanishing. Could Bolder Juries Save It?

A new campaign by the Cato Institute aims to educate jurors on their right to vote their conscience against unjust laws and sentences.

The American Prison Experiment: A 250-Year History of Good Intentions and Bad Results

A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform

Holding Law Enfocement Accountable

When federal officers break the law, how can state prosecutors hold them accountable for criminal conduct? Since this past spring, a team of law students, led by Professor Emerita ...

Court reform is liberal-coded nowadays. But it shouldn’t be.

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff.In Jan. 2023, a PDF att...

Justice Department Will Investigate Conditions at D.C. Jail After Years of Reports of Filth and Neglect

The Justice Department is investigating years of complaints of wretched living conditions, neglect, and brutality inside the D.C. Jail.

2025 policing trend: Fewer serious crimes, more minor arrests

Arrests for more minor offenses, including vagrancy, rose in the U.S., even as violent crime rates dropped to historic lows, according to an analysis from criminal justice reform a...

Your guide to L.A. County Charter Amendment E: Jail alternatives

County voters are being asked to fill in gaps to implement previously approved ethics reforms and fix a goof that invalidated a jail alternatives proposal.

Is Our Age of Mass Incarceration Collapsing?

Researchers say low crime rates by Gen Zers and millennials could keep driving down the prison population for the next two decades.

Debaten en Nueva Esparta la reforma de la justicia penal

La iniciativa busca formular una hoja de ruta consensuada para transformar la estructura del sistema penal venezolano La entrada Debaten en Nueva Esparta la reforma...

Mamdani names longtime reformer to lead jail watchdog amid ongoing crisis on Rikers

Christopher Watler will lead the Board of Correction’s oversight of Rikers Island at a time of major change – and continued troubles – for the city’s criminal justice system.

Colorado lawmakers want to carve a new path out of prison in second-look sentencing bill

Colorado lawmakers want to carve a new path out of prison in second-look sentencing bill

Milwaukee jail death raises familiar concerns among reform advocates