*Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to clarify that the ordered early release of some prisoners has not yet been rescinded. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — The race for the governor’s office is in full swing ...
Amid a contentious midterm elections season and rising crime rates in some areas, longstanding political attacks on criminal justice reform have found a new foe: bail reform. Changes to the cash bail system in many ...
OPINION: When you cover politics, some subjects come around with depressing familiarity, like dishwater circling a drain. Fear is a political weapon. Richard Nixon was one of the first mainstream politicians to push the simple, ...
Placeholder while article actions load In the 1980s and ’90s, the Democratic Party embraced big increases in police funding, longer prison sentences and greater use of the death penalty. Part of the rationale was a ...
While far more people are being diverted from jail while awaiting trial, the percentage who get re-arrested for new offenses remained virtually unchanged after the reforms took effect, according to the analysis by City Comptroller ...
Republicans running for governor are using the increase in violent crime in an effort to reach suburban voters critical in deciding a statewide election and recapture a region of the state the GOP controlled for ...
New York staggered from one horrific crime after another, like the murder of Charles Gallagher, a physics professor at Columbia University, who was found dead in Central Park. Time Magazine noted that Gallagher’s murder was ...
