Less than three weeks after a Supreme Court ruling mandated it, an Iowa court gives two inmates the right to appeal the...
WASHINGTON – Corey Foster, 16, was playing basketball with his friends at his school in Yonkers, N.Y., in April, when a staff...
In the wake of a batch of federal data released earlier this year showing minority children are disproportionately disciplined in schools, experts...
The W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) would like to congratulate our colleague Bryan Stevenson at the Equal Justice Initiative and the legions of lawyers, advocates and...
The short hallway, maybe 15- or 20- feet long, had gray metal doors on each end. A single fluorescent light dimly lit...
Connecticut just made a major policy change that will protect kids and reduce crime. You probably didn’t notice. That’s understandable. The Raise...
There are now two different versions of African-American history. The first is the inspiring story of slaves who were given their freedom...
Receiving a life sentence is a shock. When the judge said to me, in 1985, “I sentence you to life in prison...
Hundreds of people like Alabama’s Evan Miller are newly-eligible to appear in front of sentencing judges and perhaps parole boards, as the...
It is a fundamental principle in effective supervision of juvenile offenders that the optimal caseload size should be 25. It is still...
UPDATED Tuesday, 9:23 a.m.: WASHINGTON – Advocates for juvenile justice reform applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 5-to-4 ruling yesterday that children under 18...
The violence that stains Chicago is a long way from Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday it was not...
WASHINGTON – A mix of around 250 child welfare workers, law enforcement officials, public officials and nonprofit employees from 49 states and territories,...
Back in the mid 1990s, we had a brief moment to celebrate progressive reforms in the prison system, a rarity here in...
While most of the nation anxiously awaits a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the federal health care...
This past weekend I made a trip to Kentucky with my girlfriend, and on the way back we travelled through the north...
Headlines from Dallas and Chicago over the past few days seem to underscore that the debate over gun rights, following the Trayvon...
This story originally appeared on iWatchnews.org by the Center for Public Integrity. In the wake of critical news reports, Los Angeles school police and...