Research underscores how our punitive criminal justice system is a coronavirus risk factor. Nearly 1 in 6 covid-19 infections in Illinois can be traced to the Cook County Jail, study shows.

As we contemplate the next 50 years, our collective goal should be transforming our punitive criminal legal system. ... our commitment to reshaping the landscape of criminal justice is unwavering.

The criminal justice system is broken. Restorative justice can help fill the gap. Inside a movement that aims to bring accountability and healing to the justice system.

After 40 years of punitive criminal justice policies that swelled the American prison system by 500 percent, this year’s election may have marked the beginning of the end for the “tough-on ...

It aligned with the logic present in many homes, and exemplified in the functioning of the criminal justice system, and was thus mutually reinforcing of consistent standards across young people ...

For example, Edwards found that states with punitive criminal justice systems are expected to place an average of 1.5 more children per 1,000 into foster care annually than states with less ...

Our criminal justice system is making it really hard for people to find jobs September 30, 2014 More than 10 years ago The Coleman Federal Prison seen through a gate in Coleman, Fla. in June of 1999.

The center will do litigation, legislative advocacy and public education, presumably aimed at reforming our often unfair, punitive and inefficient criminal justice system.

The punitive approach that drives current policies emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when the primary theory of criminal justice shifted from rehabilitation to retribution and crime control.

Advocates for a more punitive system focus on strengthening the ... The bureaucratic agencies that make up the U.S. criminal-justice system went from relative political insignificance to a ...

A look at how Steve Twist, an Arizona man who’s never held elected office, has shaped one of America’s most punitive criminal justice systems.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King’s words evoke a powerful image, but also leave much to the imagination. What should justice look like ...