criminal justice

An Atlanta, Georgia, woman’s dreams of going back to college are finally coming true thanks to the help of a good Samaritan passenger on an Uber ride who paid it forward.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage laid down the law to representatives of other political parties in a Sunday election debate, slamming “liberal elite” weakness and demanding serious action against radical Islamic terrorists.

LONDON (AP) – Three of the five people who were killed or wounded in the London stabbing attack were former Cambridge University students or staff members who had gathered for an event designed to connect graduate students with prisoners to study criminology, police and the university said Sunday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for an end to early prisoner release after members of the public had to tackle a rampaging jihadist armed with nothing but a fire extinguisher and a narwhal tusk.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) attended a criminal justice forum at Benedict College after pledging to boycott the event the day before due to President Trump’s keynote address.

A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang has been arrested for murdering a man less than a year after being freed from federal prison by the “First Step Act.” 

A “violent predatory rapist” who came to the United Kingdom from Ethiopia as a refugee has been convicted for roaming the country by train assaulting women.

California Governor Gavin Newsom pardoned three immigrant felons last week to help them avoid being deported from the United States.

An Algerian illegal migrant who entered Britain via France after hiding in the back of a lorry has been jailed for strangling and sexually assaulting a teenager.

A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang is now on the run after allegedly stabbing a man to death in Rhode Island, just nine months after being released from federal prison thanks to the “First Step Act.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the third 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate that no “non-violent” convicted criminals should be serving time in prisons across the United States.

A Pakistani doctor who blamed his sexual assault on a student nurse on the different “cultural norms” of his home country has been allowed to return to work.

A Somali migrant granted the right to stay in the United Kingdom despite 33 previous convictions has been imprisoned for drug dealing just weeks later.

Piper Kerman, author of “Orange is the New Black,” demanded that Congress do something to reform the “patriarchal” criminal justice system.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) admitted he failed to increase the number of African-American police officers during his two terms as mayor in the second 2020 Democrat presidential debate Thursday evening.

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.