Is the era of the death penalty ending? “We’re seeing the first signs that it could happen,” William Saletan of Slate reports. In a 1994 Gallup poll … [Read more...]

‘This represents the 12th consecutive year in which the number of inmates under sentence of death decreased’ Executions in the United States are on a … [Read more...]

A federal appeals court has refused to order Missouri to reveal the source of drugs to be used in lethal injections. In a 7-3 decision, the 8th U.S. … [Read more...]

When it comes to the U.S. laws governing the right to vote, a staggering 5.85 million Americans are prevented from voting due to prior felony … [Read more...]

The County Should Focus On Alternatives to Incarceration Monterey County has approved an $88.9 million plan to add 576 beds to its county jail, the … [Read more...]

Seventeen states are using a new criminal justice strategy that relies on evidence-based methods to bring down prison costs while reducing recidivism … [Read more...]

California’s state prisons continue to struggle to meet a court-imposed inmate population cap at the same time that Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to ease … [Read more...]

According to a collaborative research project initiated by the University of Michigan Law School and published earlier this year in PNAS, 4.1 percent … [Read more...]