The sight of Bill Cosby being escorted from court in handcuffs to begin serving a three-to-ten year prison sentence didn’t make me smile, but it did give me a sense of hope that justice is possible for women in America. Cosby spent decades brutally violating women’s...
Criminal justice reformers call the courts’ reliance on money bail unjust: The wealthy can buy pretrial freedom, while the poor are stuck behind bars or get pressured into taking a plea deal. California is becoming the largest state to abolish money bail, but many of...
The sight of Bill Cosby being escorted from court in handcuffs to begin serving a three-to-ten year prison sentence didn’t make me smile, but it did give me a sense of hope that justice is possible for women in America. Cosby spent decades brutally violating women’s...
Although many states now operate mandatory programs to address student absenteeism—which is considered a strong predictor of later misbehavior— there’s a wide range of views among educators and juvenile justice practitioners across the country about when intervention is most effective. The problem is complicated by the...
Residents mourning two officers killed in a weekend shootout in Brookhaven, Ms., 60 miles south of Jackson, left roses, balloons and American flags at police headquarters Sunday and held an evening vigil in their memory, the Associated Press reports. Police Chief Kenneth Collins called residents...
Elon Musk reached a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Saturday to resolve securities fraud charges. The settlement will force Musk to step aside as chairman of Tesla, the company he co-founded, for three years and pay a $20 million fine, the New...