Criminal Justice
Vox’s coverage of advances and failures of the American criminal justice system.
Trump has scheduled more federal executions than any president in at least a century.
Demonstrations over restrictions on filming law enforcement made the government reconsider.
It’s the first time either body of Congress has backed marijuana legalization.
The homicide rate is significantly up in American cities. Here are some explanations for why.
Oregon’s voters have forced significant reforms to end the war on drugs.
LA’s “Yes on J” campaign flipped the message from defunding cops to investing in everything else. It worked brilliantly.
Voters are being asked whether they want to scale back mass incarceration.
In every state where marijuana legalization or another drug policy reform was on the ballot, it won.
South Dakota voters just said yes to legalizing marijuana for recreational and medical purposes.
Montana voters just approved two marijuana legalization measures.
Oregon voters have taken a big step toward ending the war on drugs.
Arizona voters approved a marijuana legalization measure.
New Jersey voters just said yes to marijuana legalization.
Yes, the movement calls for a complete end to policing. No, it’s not a political fad.
Wallace, a 27-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in front of his mother while reportedly experiencing a mental health crisis.
America is unable to contain the surging pandemic because we refuse to reckon with the racial inequities that drive it.
#EndSARS, explained.
Stinnette died from his wounds and Williams is recovering in an Illinois hospital. The FBI is investigating.
Voters in several states have a chance to change the criminal justice system in 2020.
The Justice Department announced an $8 billion settlement with Purdue on Wednesday.
The ballot measure is trying to move the state from a criminal justice to a public health approach on drugs.
Oregon and Washington, DC, voters may relax their laws for psychedelic drugs.
A Massachusetts state trooper confessed to running background checks for drug dealers. He’s still on the force.
If the measures win, more than one in three Americans will live in a state where marijuana is legal.
In 11 states, at least one in 10 Black people of voting age can’t vote due to a felony conviction.
Details are unclear, but police confirmed a private security guard shot and killed a right-wing demonstrator.
The 20 hours of audio have been made public after a juror requested that AG Daniel Cameron share “the whole truth.”
The gripping new documentary is a harrowing portrait of a family prior to its own annihilation.
At the presidential debate, Trump continued to use rhetoric that will only make tensions worse.
A Supreme Court without Ruth Bader Ginsburg is about to show us whether it still cares for the rule of law.
Trump’s comments at the presidential debate paint a misleading picture about crime and violence in the US.
The 1994 “tough on crime” law remains a big topic of debate.
Trump speaks of “anarchy and mayhem” in cities. But understanding violent crime is much more complicated than simply looking at numbers.
People took to the streets Wednesday night to call out systemic injustice.
It’s time to ask why we continue to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on police misconduct lawsuits and billions more on policing that yields poor outcomes.
Two people are dead and 16 injured after a shooting at a party. No suspects have been taken into custody.
From revised search warrant protocols to contracting social workers, the policy changes are a start but could go much further.
Trump has claimed he’s “tough on crime” and for “law and order.” Here’s what that really means.
A police killing in Rochester, New York, has resurfaced questions about the use of force against people with mental illness.