California’s crime rate began a historic plunge in the early 1990s and has fallen ever since, except for some small spikes, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet it took more than a decade until ...

After 38 years, a Massachusetts man is getting a second chance after he though he’d die in prison. But his second chance was controversial. On Sept. 2, 1987, Michael Eagles was sentenced to life in ...

Brooklyn legislators, including State Sens. Julia Salazar and Gustavo Rivera, alongside Assemblymembers Maritza Davila and Latrice Walker, joined a group of 18 New York lawmakers on Monday in Albany ...

Last year, Alabama’s top prosecutor said the parole system is working, and “dangerous offenders are largely the only ones left behind bars.” Was he right? Thousands of people in Alabama lockups are ...