From cybersecurity assessments and training to coordination with law enforcement agencies, state governments need to provide ...

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states verify the citizenship and ...

At the same time, Trump continues to blare that crime is rampant and immigrants are to blame. As he defunds violence ...

Instead, the justices found another path — a sneakier one. Repeatedly, they have let Trump amass vast new power, and they ...

States must step up to help election officials protect their staff, facilities, and voting systems. Election resiliency is about making sure that attacks and other disruptive incidents do not impede ...

On July 1, Congress passed a budget bill that gives an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention ...

The First Step Act is intended to do two things: cut unnecessarily long federal sentences and improve conditions in federal prison. More than a year after it was enacted in 2018, key parts of the law ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in for-profit immigration detention centers.

For over a century, the Enforcement Acts have protected the civil rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments from infringement by extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Project 2025, ...

State legislatures enacted an almost unprecedented number of voting-related laws in 2023, with more of the same expected in 2024.

Summary: Financial incentives throughout the criminal justice system encourage punitive enforcement and sustain mass incarceration. Realigning them will require action from municipalities to the ...

Overall crime rates in America’s 30 largest cities were nearly identical from 2014 to 2015, according to an analysis of final 2015 numbers. Crime declined over that time period by 0.1 percent. The ...