There's been a lot of bad news for CARES Act releasees over the past year or so. For months, we've analyzed reports about how the future of those released from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic was hanging in the balance (like here, here and here).
Rikers Island is making headlines as a national disgrace, but it's also the inevitable consequence of the U.S.'s high incarceration rate.
California could end mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses, but it sits on the desk of a governor facing an unprecedented recall effort.
As of now, people released under the CARES Act will still have to return to prison when the COVID-19 pandemic ends—even if they're safe.
North Carolina lawmakers passed, and the governor signed, comprehensive criminal justice reform this month. But who does it benefit?
A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative gives United States prisons the grade they deserve for their COVID-19 response: an F.
For 50 years, citizens have relied on Bivens to file lawsuits over constitutional violations by federal agents. That time could be over.
More than 100 law students from all over Alabama have joined calls from prosecutors, scholars and others for a new trial for Toforest Johnson.
SCOTUS stayed John Ramirez's execution, likely meaning the Court will address the religious freedom of those on death row on the merits.
A Washington jury convicted a man of murdering his ex-girlfriend, but an appeals court granted him a new trial based on prosecutor misconduct.