criminal justice system

Mark St. Germain’s new play, “Forgiveness,” having its World Premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Taking place in Minnesota, a former convict is allowed to seek forgiveness from the Governor. They have 10 minutes to plead their case in a dramatic, pressurized process to gain acceptance back into the fold, or be stuck forever on the outskirts of society.

Union College is sponsoring a talk by one of the country's foremost experts in sentencing policy, race and the criminal justice system.Marc Mauer is the…

Alisa Roth is a former staff reporter for Marketplace and frequent contributor to various NPR programs. A Soros Justice Fellow, her work has also appeared…

Growing up in the rough outskirts of northern Dublin at a time when joining the guards, the army, or the civil service was the height of most parents’…

A new report by the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that young African-American men have better survival chances in prison than on the…

A New York state assemblyman says he is preparing legislation to give the state attorney general sole power to prosecute police crimes. This comes in the…