​Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, writing in the New York Review of Books, reviews William Stuntz's The Collapse of...

​Most modern justice systems focus on a crime, a lawbreaker and a punishment. But a concept called “restorative justice” considers harm...

The flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system (shown in the diagram) updates the original chart prepared by the President's...

​We are a society that is governed by data and statistics. Government funding is based on this data: where we send our children to school,...

​Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. ~ Robert Frost The greatest increase in United States government...

Authors Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration; Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ); Division of Behavioral...

​The national death-row population is roughly 42 percent black—nearly three times the proportion in the general population. BY MATT FORD |...

Bill Quigley Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; Professor, Loyola New Orleans Published in HuffPost Politics, 07/26/10...

​Nationally, an estimated 5.85 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of laws that prohibit voting by people with felony...

​This Article presents new empirical evidence concerning the effects of United States v. Booker, which loosened the formerly mandatory...