WASHINGTON - Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters testifies as Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz listens during the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and ...

More than a hundred violent criminals and sex offenders have been released under the First Step Act, President Trump's signature bipartisan criminal justice reform package, according to data from an ...

Imprisoning convicted criminals for longer and longer periods sounds like an appealing and commonsense proposal to many people. After all, when lawbreakers are locked up they can’t commit more crimes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The First Step Act ushered in much needed change to reduce our ...

The First Step features media personality Van Jones attempting to bring people together to pass a landmark criminal justice bill on prison reform and finding himself under fire from all sides.

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, ...

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President Donald Trump and conservatives in Congress earned a historic victory this week by enacting the First Step Act. The landmark bill provides modest yet much-needed prison and sentencing reform ...