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Under settlements approved last Tuesday, the federal government must pay an average of 1.1 million to each of 103 women who sued the Bureau of Prison over their treatment at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. BOP announced earlier this month that it was permanently…

A U.S. federal judicial panel has endorsed giving public defender programs greater organizational independence within the federal judiciary, a structural shift that would grant lawyers for indigent defendants greater control over their budgets, staffing and policies (…

A coalition of District Attorneys, Attorneys General, law enforcement officials, former judges, U.S. Attorneys and other criminal justice leaders, submitted a letter to…

U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), the Senate’s only former federal public defender, joined U.S. Representatives…

In a landmark case, a North Carolina court ruled that racism played an impermissible role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his death sentence under the North Carolina Racial Justice Act (RJA) (…

President Biden on Thursday announced he is commuting the prison sentences for nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in what the White House said was the largest act of clemency in a single day in modern presidential history.

The 1,500 people had been serving long prison sentences…

Yesterday, the United States Sentencing Commission issued a press release announcing …

President Biden has appointed more than 62 Black judges, including 40 Black women, who are now serving lifetime appointments on the federal bench.

Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tiffany Rene Johnson to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, making her the…

Pope Francis appealed on Sunday for U.S. authorities to commute the sentences of death row prisoners, in an unusual request during his weekly Sunday prayer in St. Peter's Square (…

With no fanfare, Sandra Hemme, the Missouri woman who spent 43 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, is finally free of the legal system (access full article…