At both the federal and state level, 2018 was a big year for criminal justice reform. In a bipartisan effort, Congress passed the First Step Act, paving the way for some of the biggest changes to ...

Why support for criminal justice reform isn't the same as being anti-police The actual policy proposals of the mainstream criminal justice reform movement are not anti-police by any stretch.

Such acknowledgments are necessary because, without them, “criminal justice reform” is misleading. To preserve the rights and freedoms we enjoy, faith in judicial proceedings is essential.

The same could be said of criminal justice reform. Last year, despite significant bipartisan support in Congress, criminal justice reform crashed on the shoals of an election year, ...

Criminal justice reform can mean many things, but the most fundamental goals of any reform agenda should be to stop the cycle of crime, reverse mass incarceration and provide a pathway to economic ...

Kenitra Brown is a staff attorney at the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center and adjunct professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law whose father spent time in prison.

How Criminal-Justice Reform Fell Apart For a brief period, culminating two summers ago, the United States seemed to be on the verge of a serious rethinking. By David A. Graham ...

Since 2010, dozens of states have enacted criminal-justice-reform measures, such as bail reform, job training for inmates, and raising the age at which defendants are treated as adults.

That’s why the ACLU has launched Vote Smart Justice, a nonpartisan voter education drive to give Americans information about where candidates for office stand on key criminal justice reform issues. At ...

Criminal justice reform in the 2021 legislative session: Here are the bills that passed and those that didn’t by Kelan Lyons June 11, 2021 @ 5:00 am Updated March 5, 2022 @ 12:58 am.