Eighteen youths have been killed so far in 2025. Local leaders are turning to mentorship, counseling, and community programs to reach kids before violence does.
With killings down by more than half from the 2021 peak, officials say progress is real but fragile, and deep-seated social issues remain unresolved.
By combining skills training, mental health support, and guaranteed job placement, the R.I.S.E. program offers a rare promise of post-release stability in Oklahoma.
Supervisors say the move is about transparency and civil rights, but federal officials warn it could compromise agent safety and operational security
The fallout from a strike by prison guards continues to paralyze prisons, forcing officials to suspend programs and rely on emergency deployments.
A new report shows homicides fell 17 percent in early 2025, but experts caution the trend is concentrated in a few major cities and not yet clearly linked to specific policy changes.
From politics to economics, closing old or bad prisons is not always straightforward. Even some incarcerated people have mixed emotions.
For incarcerated people, books can bring hope and new understanding, prepare them for jobs on the outside or simply help pass the time. But they’re often hard to get.
Over recent decades we’ve moved toward a much more effective and humane system to deal with youth crime. Evidence and research, not hyperbole and hysteria, should be guiding today’s debate.
The city has a goal of hiring 4,000 more officers by 2029. Recruiting classes are starting to increase thanks to higher salaries and other expanded hiring efforts.
James Hochman has resumed prosecuting even low-level crimes, but the number of felony charges hasn’t increased compared with his reform-minded predecessor’s count.
Under a state law enacted this year, individuals can face additional penalties if they’re caught wearing a face covering while committing a crime.
Law enforcement officials say it’s not the boys in blue on patrol but rather city-run youth programs that are shifting the trend for kids.
Proposed statewide standards would cover everything from transporting young people to arresting their caregivers.
Children with a parent in prison face a higher risk of social, economic, educational and behavioral challenges. There’s much that could be done to reduce collateral damage to families.
Older, sick prisoners cost far more to incarcerate. Since they pose little or no risk to public safety, states should ease the path to medical parole.
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