Economist Jennifer Doleac argues that policymakers should rely on measurable outcomes rather than assumptions when designing ...

Economist Jennifer Doleac argues that criminal justice reform should be driven by evidence, not ideology, and that ...

Maine’s latest criminal justice reform took effect this year with little public attention, but its impact will be felt every ...

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Today, Mr. Trump is calling for a comprehensive crime bill that would reverse years of reform. Bail reform, which sought to ...

Last month, voters in Shelby County, Tennessee, ousted an 11-year incumbent district attorney with a national reputation for being overly-punitive. Amy Weirich aggressively pursued the death penalty, ...

Criminal justice reform is far less effective for an incarcerated American than education, which would have prevented prison ...

The people with direct knowledge of incarceration —those who have lived through it -- are often absent from the policy ...

Criminal justice reformers are destroying the trust in the criminal justice system that is necessary for the system to operate, and they are doing so by misleading victims and the public about how ...

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner earned rare praise from Democratic lawmakers Thursday for his effort to reform the state's criminal justice system. Rauner - the super-wealthy, fiscally conservative ...

The Alabama Legislature this year approved several bills giving parolees the right to participate in hearings and requiring ...

As legislators begin to gather in Annapolis, we encourage them to finally commit to meaningful juvenile justice reform as it relates to removing the automatic waiver of juveniles into the adult ...