Maryland Public Defender advocates for childhood protection and criminal justice reform, highlighting the need for prevention and care over punishment.

Here is a snapshot of the dramatic changes to four branches of law enforcement. In the span of a single week, the U.S. criminal justice system endured unprecedented upheaval, as law enforcement ...

President Donald Trump is bending the U.S. justice system to his personal purposes in a way that is unprecedented in American history, prompting significant questions about how a system built on ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...

WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how youth who commit crimes are prosecuted in the District of Columbia as congressional Republicans mobilized behind President ...

A growing trend in South Carolina: when the criminal courts deliver little accountability, victims are turning to civil ...

Navigating the issues of mental illness diagnosis and competency for trial. Exploring the unique issues when someone with a psychiatric or neurodevelopmental condition is brought into the criminal ...

The DOJ argued that the federal judge did not have the authority to make the decision. A United States judge in Texas has ...