There are currently more than one million women in state and local corrections facilities across the United States, and their realities are nothing like "Orange Is the New Black." Unlike the actresses in the Netflix series, life for incarcerated women cannot be fast-fo...

Oklahoma’s incarceration crisis was not created in one election cycle, and it will take more than one to fix it. But the fact that an entrenched incumbent district attorney in Tulsa County was pulled into runoff against an opponent preaching reform this week shows that...

This Article presents new empirical evidence concerning the effects of United States v. Booker, which loosened the formerly mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, on racial disparities in federal criminal cases. Two serious limitations pervade existing empirical literat...

Nationally, an estimated 5.85 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of laws that prohibit voting by people with felony convictions. Felony disenfranchisement is an obstacle to participation in democratic life which is exacerbated by racial disparities...

Bill Quigley

Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; Professor, Loyola New Orleans

Published in HuffPost Politics, 07/26/10

The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly target...

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

BY MATT FORD  |  JUN 23 2014  |  THE ATLANTIC 

After a seven-week freeze following Clayton Lockett's botched execution in Oklahoma,...

The flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system (shown in the diagram) updates the original chart prepared by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice in 1967. The chart by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics summariz...