Targeted state strategies: The 2026 guide compiles reforms that have passed in multiple states and could be replicated to curb incarceration. Broad reform categories: Eight focus areas include ...

Judge Bennett retired from the federal bench in 2019, and is now Director Emeritus of the Institute for Justice Reform & Innovation at Drake University Law School. Judge Bennett retired from the ...

FORKS — Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols met with members of the West End Business and Professional Association and the Forks Chamber of Commerce to discuss issues facing the county’s ...

The Communities Not Cages campaign is advocating for the passage of three sentencing reform bills in the 2026 legislative session: the Second Look Act, the Earned Time Act and the Marvin Mayfield Act.

The First Step Act represented one of the most significant federal prison reform efforts in decades. Passed with bipartisan support in 2018, the law was intended to reduce recidivism, expand ...

Attorney says, when it comes to prison reform, "our Legislature continues to do the bare minimum for the people of ...

Criminal justice reforms have helped reduce incarceration rates while not increasing crime, yet Mississippi keeps on ...

Twelve thousand inmates are eligible for release from federal prisons due to reforms of sentencing laws for crack cocaine. Cocaine is illegal in all its forms but, in federal sentencing law, there's a ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Activists rallied in Rochester on Tuesday, demanding the passage of sentencing reform bills. The proposed legislation aims to expand earned time credits, allow some people to ...

The Colorado House narrowly approved a bill altering penalties for murder with extreme indifference, reducing sentences in some cases from life without parole to fixed terms. The reform follows ...