It seems like only yesterday that criminal justice reform was in vogue. Progressives were being elected as prosecutors. Laws were passed to relieve prison overcrowding and divert offenders from the ...

Leah Nowotarski, chair of criminal justice section of the New York State Defenders Association. Courtesy photo. The Criminal Justice Section has been instrumental in advocating changes in criminal law ...

Matthew Martens, co-chair of the securities litigation and enforcement practice group of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, has a new book out in November seeking to "reclaim the biblical ...

Last month, voters in Shelby County, Tennessee, ousted an 11-year incumbent district attorney with a national reputation for being overly-punitive. Amy Weirich aggressively pursued the death penalty, ...

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After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face over the last year and enacted stricter policies to tamp ...