When Janet Garcia-Hallett, Ph.D., was growing up in Harlem, she noticed the impact that incarceration had on communities of color, much like her own. Drawn to the field of criminal justice, she also ...

A returned package sent from Seattle-based Books to Prisoners to an inmate in Texas. A name and address have been covered for privacy. Two nonprofit prison book programs say the Texas Department of ...

In his new book “Welcome the Wretched,” immigration lawyer César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández makes a case for separating immigration policy from the criminal justice system. The Ohio State University ...

On a summer night in 1971, Michael Henderson, age 18 and black, was hanging out near a nightclub in East St. Louis, Ill., when a car driven by a white boy, with two black passengers, pulled into the ...

America has a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives gun violence, and it’s prevented us from solving the problem. That’s according to the new book Unforgiving Places, by University of Chicago ...

Debbie Hines knows a lot about criminal justice—the former trial attorney, Baltimore prosecutor, and Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland has had years to hone her experience in this ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson sent a copy of her 2016 book “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising and Its Legacy” to three people locked up in Illinois prisons, two ...

DALLAS, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick J. McLain, a leading military and criminal defense attorney and founder of the Law Office of Patrick J. McLain has released a compelling new book, Facing ...

A photo of Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer given what many view as a light sentence for sexual assault in 2016, now appears next to the definition of “rape” in a college criminal justice textbook.