If you need a lawyer, you must consider how to pay them. To some extent, payment will...
Criminal Justice
New Jersey, along with other states of the US, has long grappled with drug-related crime. The state’s...
Personal injury cases don’t clog up the courts much. That’s because, many times, the parties settle before...
Cases have declined, yet low-income Black and Latino New Yorkers continue to disproportionately face charges. By Josephine...
He founded the first criminal investigation bureau — staffed mainly with convicts. By Dr. Daisy SainsburyWriter This...
How can society do a better job of rehabilitating law-breakers while keeping them from re-offending? By Lola...
Why are we undoing the progress that’s been made to correct the problems with corrections? By Kinsey...
His flawed evidence was used to wrongly convict Alfred Dreyfus in the infamous Dreyfus affair. Introduction Alphonse...
Using a freshly painted railing to flee a murder scene, he left behind something that would change...
The transition from DNA as a tool for criminal investigation to DNA as a consumer good. Introduction...
Facing legal situations involving personal injury and criminal defense can be challenging, but a law firm specializing...
“Discrimination is alive and well in the criminal legal system right now.” By Ella WileyComms AssociateLegal Defense...
In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant created the Department of Justice specifically to counter-far-right terrorism. Introduction Among...
Racial profiling constituted a fact of life for African Americans as long as there have been organized...
During the Great Fire of Rome, the vigiles took to looting the city rather than enforcing law...
They have spent decades preserving perks, defending judges, and thwarting outside oversight. Introduction For decades, judges have...
Allowances were usually made for people who had some social status on their side. Introduction and Early...
Police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill. When Barbara and Belvett Richards...
In many urban centers, law enforcement came to be viewed as an “occupying force.” By Dr. Chuck...
There is an epidemic of violence inside prisons. By Lauren-Brooke Eisen, J.D.Senior Director, JusticeBrennan Center for Justice...
Higher jail mortality is related to jail turnover rates and demographics. By Dr. Jessica L. AdlerAssociate Professor...
As the laws and rules on how to treat kids changed, the facility failed to keep up....
Solitary confinement was originally developed from Quaker ideas about the redemptive power of silence. This article, The...
“When you do nothing, what can you do?” By Kim Li Sun, J.D.Attorney and Author When I...
The court convened for the first time on February 2, 1790. Introduction The Supreme Court of the United...
How Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans...
In 1789, Congress gained the authority to establish the federal judicial system as a whole. History The Articles...
Federal courts, particularly the Supreme Court, are the final authority on interpreting federal law. Introduction The judicial...
New polling results show hunger for Supreme Court reform. When I go around the country speaking about...
By Christy Visher and John Eason Prison culture and environment are essential to public health and safety....