PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge on Tuesday and won’t serve additional time in prison after reaching a plea agreement in a case that’s kept him on probation for most of his adult life.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called for the criminal prosecution of fossil fuel executives – citing the “destruction they have knowingly caused” – as part of his massive $16 trillion Green New Deal proposal unveiled Thursday.
Washington, D.C.’s council is reviewing a plan to free early from prison hundreds of violent convicted criminals, including murderers and rapists, so long as they committed the crimes when they were young.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled her comprehensive criminal justice reform plan Tuesday and outlined policies that “recognize the humanity of trans people and other LGBTQ+ Americans and keep them safe from violence.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform plan Sunday aimed to combat “institutional racism” in the country. The plan includes diversifying police forces, creating a civilian corps of unarmed first responders, ending cash bail, and cutting the U.S. prison population in half.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said that “hundreds of thousands” of people are in jail “convicted of nothing” and that he plans to end cash bail policy.
CLAIM: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) “blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.” VERDICT: Mostly true.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) got into another heated confrontation over the issue of busing to desegregate public schools at the second Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday.
DETROIT, Michigan — Former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) attacked each other’s records on criminal justice reform at the second Democratic debate in Detroit on Wednesday night.
Former Vice President Joe Biden may be the frontrunner, but he faces significant questions over his record on racial issues and criminal justice at the second Democrat presidential debate.
Former Vice President Joe Biden may now be opposed to the death penalty, but his decades-long advocacy in favor of capital punishment is taking center stage as the Department of Justice (DOJ) readies the execution of five criminals.
The Republican and Democrat-supported criminal justice reform legislation, known as the “First Step Act,” has already allowed hundreds of violent convicted criminals to be released from federal prison, federal records reveal.
Joe Biden warned his fellow White House hopefuls that he would not refrain from punching back if criticized at the second Democrat presidential debate.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday morning that it is resuming the federal death penalty, starting with the execution of five death row inmates who have been convicted of murdering children.
Former Vice President Joe Biden punched back at Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) for calling him the “architect of mass incarceration.”
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (NJ) took a shot at former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday and dismissed his newly released criminal justice plan, saying he is the “architect of a failed system.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden is abandoning his decades-long support for the federal death penalty as he seeks the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Thursday she is “not there yet” on allowing prisoners to vote, but suggested that she may be open to the idea in the future.
If the left has its way in the next few years, there won’t be anyone left in prison because, you see, they’re overflowing with innocent black men locked up for “nonviolent drug crimes.” All of them!
Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged to cut the U.S. incarceration rate by more than 50 percent if elected president in 2020.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) claimed she misheard Thursday night’s debate question in which she signaled support for the elimination of private insurance, but this is not the first time she has swiftly reversed positions on that topic and a range of other issues.
President Donald Trump teamed up with reality star Kim Kardashian on Thursday to promote employment for former prison inmates.
President Donald Trump will give remarks on second chance hiring and criminal justice reform Thursday afternoon. The event is scheduled to take place at 4:00 p.m. Eastern in the White House East Room. Reports indicate that Kim Kardashian West will
Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has embedded her sister, Maya, at the heart of her campaign, with their husbands also providing guidance along the way.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oxygen Media has greenlighted a two-hour documentary that will capture Kim Kardashian West’s efforts to free prisoners she believes were wrongly accused. It’s a move by the network to expand its true-crime programming.
A man who was released from prison in 2016 after having his 1987 rape conviction overturned and who quickly became the poster boy for the criminal justice reform movement has now been charged with raping a woman in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Country Star Wynonna Judd made an appearance during the National Day of Prayer service at the White House Thursday where she had meetings this week.
About 3-in-4 American voters oppose a plan by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to allow convicted felons in local, state, and federal prisons to vote in federal elections from their jail cells, a new poll finds.
Education and criminal justice reform were on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) agenda during a campaign stop in Spartanburg, S.C.
“The law rolls back provisions of the 1994 Clinton crime law that was so devastating to some many and that disproportionately impacted the African American community,” Trump said in a celebration speech at the White House. “Nobody believes how much, and now they understand it.”
President Donald Trump will host and deliver remarks at a Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration on Monday at the White House.
The National Association of Counties President Greg Cox praised President Donald Trump and his administration on Monday at its annual legislative conference in Washington, DC, for its work with local officials.
In his second State of the Union address, President Donald Trump offered a path forward for a divided nation–unifying even his fiercest critics behind at least some of what he is trying to do.
NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of big names in sports and entertainment pledged their high-profile platforms and $50 million on Wednesday at the launch of an organization that will lobby for changes to state probation and parole laws.
“We were their lobbyists, we fought for these people and together we were able to make something happen,” he said.
CNN commentator Van Jones says the passage of a criminal justice reform bill set to reduce the federal prison population by more than 50,000 inmates in a decade is a “Christmas miracle.”
Wednesday on CBS’s “This Morning,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) commended Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner and the President Trump administration for the criminal justice reform bill, which the Senate passed. According to Schiff, the bipartisan bill could be a
The First Step Act, if signed into law by President Trump, would reduce the federal prison population by 53,000 inmates, the CBO reveals.
During Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” network commentator Van Jones responded to Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) pushback against criminal justice reform, accusing him of “trying to scare people” away from it. “What this bill does is it puts in the classes and
During Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on New York AM 970 radio, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) discussed the criminal justice reform bill, which he co-sponsors, predicting the bill would get 80 votes of support. Paul told host John Catsimatidis that it
