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Brooke Jenkins took office one year ago this week promising more prosecution for drug and property crime offenders. Crime and overdoses still went up.

Brooke Jenkins took office one year ago this week promising more prosecution for drug and property crime offenders. Crime and overdoses still went up.

Everyone in the criminal justice system — sheriffs, prosecutors, judges, parole boards — has enormous discretion. Some lawmakers believe that authority is now being abused.

/PRNewswire/ -- Chubb announced today that its innovative Chubb Rule of Law Fund, supported by 16 law firms and the Chubb Charitable Foundation, awarded four...

Several cities across the nation have responded to the death of Tyre Nichols by limiting traffic stops for minor offenses. 

DENVER (AP) — A bipartisan group of eight Colorado district attorneys on Thursday...

DENVER (AP) — A bipartisan group of eight Colorado district attorneys on Thursday unveiled online data dashboards providing information to the public on the cases they prosecute, including the racial and economic status of defendants and the kinds of sentences handed down for them.

Black drivers in Suffolk County are stopped by police at a rate of over two times higher than their white counterparts, a new study says.

Q&A By Sameer Rao | May 2, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT People working to end anti-Black racism in the United States criminal justice system recognize that the struggle does not end with addressing officers use of force. For Jamila "Jami" Hodge, it also requires tackling prosecutorial biases in tandem with both the government and the Black and brown communities most devastated by state violence. Jamila "Jami" Hodge As director of the Vera Institute of Justices Reshaping Prosecution projec...