criminal justice

Hong Kong’s streets were flooded with tens of thousands of protesters Sunday, angry at a proposed extradition law allowing suspects to be sent to China for trial.

Former vice president Joe Biden “supercharged” America’s devastating opioid crisis through policies he backed as a U.S. Senator, cracking down on overdose prevention sites and making it riskier to call 911 if someone overdosed.

President Donald Trump granted a full pardon Wednesday to former publisher Conrad Black, a Canadian who embraced the U.S., only to find himself the target of what many observers considered a wrongful prosecution and conviction in 2007.

President Donald Trump will host and deliver remarks at a Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration on Monday at the White House.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” author, this week warned Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and former Vice President Joe Biden that they will have to deal with their criminal justice “baggage” in the 2020 presidential election cycle.

Attorney General Jeff Landry (R-LA) said the “far left” seeks to destabilize America’s justice system by banning the death penalty.

(AFP) — Singapore insisted Tuesday it would still cane a British man convicted of drug smuggling despite a plea from London not to proceed with the punishment.

The president is hosting the event in Biloxi, Mississippi while hosting two other campaign rallies in the state for Cindy Hyde-Smith on Monday.

Rap star Meek Mill said 19th century-era slave plantations and prisons in modern America are “no different” in a video published by the New York Times Monday.

The First Step Act — dubbed “prison release” by conservatives and law enforcement officials — will reduce sentences for drug traffickers while immediately resulting in the release of 4,000 inmates. 

A mixed race woman who has repeatedly assaulted, spat on, and racially abused police officers has been allowed to walk free from court by an Australian magistrate who called her “wonderful”.

Weak punishments of as little as one year and eight months, suspended, for a migrant rape gang which targeted a 13-year-old girl have sparked outrage in Germany.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that makes California to be the first state to abolish cash bail for pre-trial incarcerations.

California Democrats in the State Senate voted Tuesday to eliminate money bail and grant judges control over pre-trial incarcerations.

A family member of one of the victims of the massacre of ten UN peacekeepers in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide has expressed outrage that Belgium is considering granting asylum to one of the men involved in the slaughter.

Pastor Darrell Scott thanked President Donald Trump for helping inner-city communities, predicting he would be the “most pro-black president in our lifetime.”

Over 40 per cent of terrorists convicted and imprisoned over the past decade will be back on the streets by the end of 2018, having served fairly light sentences.

An Egyptian adult who broke into Britain and claimed to be a Syrian child has been jailed for just three and a half years for the “severe and prolonged” rape of a vulnerable schoolgirl.

A Texas dad made a tough decision when his teenage son bragged about a “burglary spree” that included breaking into hundreds of cars, even stealing a police officer’s weapon from a parked vehicle — he called 911.

A teenage ‘refugee’ who strangled a young woman and sexually assaulted her has been spared prison, and even exempted from a “vigorous and intensive” sex offender treatment programme due to his poor English.

Official new guidance on “equal treatment” instructs judges to favour non-white defendants in order to “redress inequality”.

Theresa May’s Ministry of Justice is rolling the dice with the public’s safety by pressuring prison governors to release thousands of criminals early, according to The Times.

(ITV NEWS) — A violent attack on a West Midlands Police Officer has been caught on camera. PC Emma Agyei was assaulted after being called to a domestic incident in Wolverhampton.

Criminals could be allowed to sidestep charges if they agree to attend rehabilitation classes, under a scheme designed to reduce supposed “racial bias” in the criminal justice system.

Two Romanian brothers who were sentenced to 12 years in prison for the brutal rape of a London woman had been released from a French prison in 2016 after serving a sentence for rape.

An official Government report has recommended allowing criminals to avoid prosecution by signing up to rehabilitation therapy, in order to reduce the number of Black and Minority Ethnic convicts in the prison system.

The rape and exploitation of white girls by a gang of 17 mostly Pakistani men was not racially motivated, a judge has claimed.

Campaigners and MPs have demanded that the crimes of “Asian” grooming gangs who target white girls be treated as “racially aggravated”.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has teamed up with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to introduce a bipartisan bill that seeks to remove monetary bail requirements for people arrested while awaiting court dates.

Two years after the State threw out the sexual and satanic ritual abuse case against former Texas child day care owners Dan and Fran Keller, the Travis County District Attorney declared them “actually innocent” and dropped all existing charges, finally exonerating the couple who maintained their innocence since their 1992 convictions.