Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.

The Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project designed to help local, state, and federal policymakers and criminal justice and mental health professionals improve the response to people with ...

Crime and criminal justice are once again common themes in this year’s presidential campaigns, leaving voters to sort through misinformation and misleading claims. We know it can be challenging for ...

Ashley is a motivational speaker, victim advocate, author and founder of DNA Justice Project; a non-profit that focuses on educating the public and policy makers on the value of forensic DNA in the ...

The Garrison Project is not your standard digital news organization. It’s produced a total of 48 stories about criminal justice issues in a bit more than two years — hardly the publishing pace of a ...

For almost 10 years, the People’s Paper Co-op has used art to help women get out of jail, and to get people’s criminal records expunged. Courtney Bowles explains how the People's Paper Co-op invites ...

A growing number of people have been ignoring their jury summons and it’s raising a red flag for trial judges in criminal court. In a 2023 poll, the National Judicial College found that 58% of trial ...

Christina Swarns is a leading capital defense attorney, a nationally recognized criminal legal reform expert and the first Black woman executive director of the Innocence Project — a nonprofit legal ...

The World Justice Project (WJP) Wednesday released its 2022 Rule of Law Index. For the fifth year in a row, the majority of countries experienced a decline in the rule of law. 85 out of 140 countries, ...

Detroit — A new $598 million Wayne County Criminal Justice Center has missed yet another deadline and county officials on Thursday said there's still a "good amount of work" left to do before the ...