A K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department in the Times Square subway station in 2023. A K5 robot used by the New ...

Debbie Hines draws on her legal career in Baltimore to show what redemption looks like in practice.

Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

It was dark and windy the evening of Sunday, September 8, 2019, when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—everyone called him Sito—and his girlfriend, Ariana Bassard, left his girlfriend’s mother’s new apartment in ...

Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster.

As long as there has been freedom for black people post-slavery, there has been a criminal-justice system that has been committed to caging them again. From the convict-lease system, even slave ...

There are rising complaints from Donald Trump and his supporters that the Biden administration has “weaponized” the criminal justice system to harass and intimidate political and ideological opponents ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

A lot of people get arrested and convicted in the United States. Those interactions with the criminal justice system cast long financial shadows. This is true for retirement savings as calculations ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...