James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

Law professor James Cooper and tech industry analyst Kashyap Kompella say AI can enable access to justice and present both ...

Historically, there have been considerably more crack cocaine convictions involving Black offenders than whites and the disparate sentencing policy has been condemned as racist. Kara Gotsch ...

Washington state lawmakers are contemplating a bill that, if enacted, would give judges discretion to reduce the sentences of convicted felons, including those convicted of violent crimes and murder.

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer ...

A veteran deputy district attorney has tentatively settled his lawsuit against Los Angeles County in which he alleged he was demoted from his position in the sex crimes division for being critical of ...

Disparate Impact: A legal term referring to ... A theoretical framework used to understand how judges make sentencing decisions based on considerations of blameworthiness, community protection ...

Donald Trump signed pardons for 23 anti-abortion activists who were convicted for violating a federal law that makes it a ...

Churchill once implied that history would be kind to him because “I propose to write that history myself.” As we know from ...

We construct a framework that defines optimal outcomes in criminal courts, and we use this framework to interpret and organize the existing literature on racial disparities in pretrial detention, ...

President says prosecution of nearly two dozen activists accused of blocking patients from accessing care ‘ridiculous’ ...