President-elect Trump has been accused of countless things, but never of being predictable. Criminal justice policy is a case in point. Few could have anticipated that landmark prison reform stymied ...

This weekend, presidential hopefuls and our current president will flex their criminal justice reform muscle at the Second Step Presidential Justice Forum in South Carolina. Unlike past campaigns, ...

At a time when there are high costs of incarceration, the Bureau of Prisons is not sending non-US citizens to home confinement when they could. Instead they stay in expensive, broken down institutions ...

While the Center for American Progress supports the FIRST STEP Act, passing the bill in Congress will be easier than counting on the Trump administration to implement it. President Donald Trump walks ...

Thousands of nonviolent federal prisoners eligible for early release under a promising Trump-era law remain locked up nearly four years later because of inadequate implementation, confusion and ...

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order to help residents get updated COVID-19 vaccines without a prescription. The order directs state agencies to ensure broad access to the shots and ...