Criminal Justice System

If this is the future of America, we have a lot to look forward to.

A 30-year law against repeat offenders in Louisiana can land one man life in prison.

In a trend that has increased over the years, the National Registry of Exonerations reported an astoundingly high amount of exonerations last year, chiefly among minorities.

Due to a programming error, 3,2000 inmates have been released early from prisons in the state of Washington. The programming error was first discovered in 2002 and has yet to be fixed.

In his latest push for criminal justice reform, President Barack Obama on Monday will introduce new efforts to rehabilitate the formerly incarcerated, one of which includes banning the checkbox on employment applications that asks if a potential employee has ever been convicted of a crime.

While addressing the International Association of Chiefs of Police during an appearance in Chicago Tuesday, President Barack Obama declared that law enforcement often gets "scapegoated" for failures in society and the criminal justice system.

The discovery of racially coded notes taken by prosecutors during jury selection is forcing the Supreme Court to take a second look at this murder trial, The Washington Post reports.

The list of women who have accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault continues to grow. Three new women have publicly said they were victimized by Cosby. One of the women, Sharon Van Ert, was a cocktail waitress at a California jazz club in the 1970s. She claims that Cosby drugged and assaulted her in […]

A New York City man who stole baby formula from a Pathmark supermarket last Thursday was charged with two counts of grand larceny

In a week chock-full of events and political moves that highlight the need for criminal justice reform in the nation, President Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia Tuesday to deliver remarks focused on policing and prisons at the NAACP’s 106th National Convention. Just a day prior, Obama granted clemency to 46 non-violent drug offenders; the most a president […]

Just weeks after a worker reportedly helped two inmates escape from an upstate New York prison, a similar case allegedly recently occurred in North Carolina. Kristopher Antonio McNeil, 29, was discovered missing Saturday morning from Brown Creek Correctional Institute in Polkton, N.C., about 40 miles southeast of Charlotte, the State Department of Public Safety said […]

Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal is in intensive care for treatment of diabetes and is “not doing well,” his family said Tuesday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Abu-Jamal, 60, was taken from the Pennsylvania state Correctional Institution in Mahanoy to Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville Monday after passing out, his wife Wadiya Jamal said […]