In the United States, the criminal justice system is one of many public institutions whose workings span multiple jurisdictions. If you’ve been arrested and served jail time, it’s not uncommon to ...

Karen Conti, Chicago trial attorney, joins Bob Sirott to talk about how the criminal justice system in the U.K. is different ...

Instead, our burdensome system harms millions. A broken taillight. A counterfeit $20 bill. Expired plates. These minor “offenses” led to the deaths of Philando Castile, George Floyd, and Daunte Wright ...

Alec Karakatsanis’s “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System” should be assigned reading for every first-year law student. Published last month by The New Press, the ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...

This summer, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals published in the Vanderbilt Law Review what he called a “spirited defense” of the American criminal justice ...

Two cases involving Tennessee children with autism illustrate the harsh, complex realities they face in the juvenile justice system.

The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s (PCCD) Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee this week approved the Commonwealth’s 2025 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency ...