The criminalization of mental illness has become increasingly common in the United States. A disproportionate number of mentally-ill...

In early 2019, Front Royal and surrounding Warren County, Virginia were rocked by allegations that the executive director of the Warren...

On March 24, 2021, Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., ended a 400-year run of the death penalty in Virginia, making it the first southern state...

Allison Heldreth is a Maryland public defender and alumna of American University Washington College of Law. She received her J.D. in 2013 an

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As police departments’ roles are widened beyond their expertise, police are granted vast discretion to employ tactics of force, and there is

Last week, a jury affirmed what the world saw: Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. As we continue to reflect on the murder of George...

#StopAsianHate. #BlackLivesMatter. For a plethora of reasons, 2020 and 2021 so far have been the hardest and harshest times for many people,

The violent January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection is still fresh in our minds. As a veteran, I was particularly saddened and dismayed, yet al

On January 6, 2021, then President Trump exhorted a mob of his supporters to march on the Capitol building with a vague mission of “stopping

As COVID-19 continues to persist after hitting the year mark this March, trials have started to resume in courthouses across the country. Th

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in courts shutting down in-person appearances. Courts then turned to virtual proceedings as it continued. In

In an important first step to making substantial reform to the American criminal justice system, Illinois became the first state to abolish

In December 2020, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard ordered the removal of the portraiture that hung in the courtroom...

Prisoners who committed offenses in their youths are finally getting a second chance. D.C. recently passed the Second Look Amendment Act,...