Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the new Democratic standard bearer, Vice President Kamala Harris has described her contest with former President Donald Trump ...

Data Over Dogma: A case for criminal justice reforms that follow the facts. Pictured here, a Washington Metropolitan Police Department vehicle moves through an intersection with lights and sirens ...

President Donald Trump, right, is applauded by a group of former prisoners during the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday ...

In advance of the 2024 presidential election, The Chronicle is breaking down each candidate’s stance on priority issues, examining their platform and political history to keep voters in the Duke and ...

Not that long ago, in the summer of 2020, the moment seemed ripe for meaningful criminal-justice reform in America. Millions of people joined demonstrations denouncing the police killings of Breonna ...

Over her career, her rhetoric has tracked the national mood. So do Americans now want a prosecutor-in-chief? Credit...Photo illustration by Tyler Comrie Supported by By Shaila Dewan When Kamala Harris ...

Though crime and criminal justice policy are central issues in many elections, that’s not true in 2024. Surveys show that relatively few American voters rank crime as their most important concern. Yet ...

The Science of Second Chances: A Revolution in Criminal Justice, by Jennifer Doleac (Henry Holt & Co., 267 pp., $29.99) In contemporary criminal-justice debates, the term “second chances” seems to ...

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Detroit — For more than 100 days following the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis, protesters in Detroit and across the country staged demonstrations calling for ...

President-elect Trump has been accused of countless things, but never of being predictable. Criminal justice policy is a case in point. Few could have anticipated that landmark prison reform stymied ...

House Republicans are weighing a slate of legislation that would overhaul criminal justice policies in D.C. and further restrict home rule — including a proposal that would remove the city’s locally ...