Exclusive: Lord chancellor urges MPs to back judge-only trials in thousands of criminal cases in England and Wales The backlog of nearly 80,000 trials clogging up the court system could be cleared ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. A deal between the federal government and groups that sued the Trump ...

Crime rates in the U.S. fell in 2025. Murders in particular fell dramatically. That is a major takeaway among criminal justice experts as we approach the year's end. Crime rates in the U.S. fell ...

The Trump administration’s abrupt termination of funding for criminal justice data and research will upend years of progress toward building safer communities. April 2025’s abrupt funding cuts at the ...

A decade ago, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to eliminate cash bail. The ballot question was simple, but what we voted on was complicated. Whether you knew it ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wants to reimagine public safety in New York City. On the campaign trail, he promised to devote more than $1 billion to the “Department of Community Safety,” a new agency ...

The decision is a setback for the president’s efforts to wield the criminal justice system against his perceived enemies. By Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett A federal judge on Monday tossed out separate ...

ANDERSON — A proposal to bring significant changes to the criminal justice system in Madison County has received the support of the county council. The Madison County Council Tuesday joined with the ...

ANDERSON — The Madison County Board of Commissioners has endorsed a proposal that would change how the local criminal justice system operates in the future. Madison Circuit Court Division 1 Judge ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has called lawmakers back for a special session to consider a long list of legislation, including a sweeping criminal reform proposal and a plan to ...

On Oct. 24, the University of California released a $1.2 billion settlement proposal by the U.S. Department of Justice to the public. If agreed upon, the proposal would require UCLA to overhaul its ...