Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered on the steps of the State Capitol to call on lawmakers to pass a series of prison sentencing ...

Advocates, activists, Democratic lawmakers, and families of incarcerated New Yorkers gathered at the State Capitol to call for passage of three criminal justice bills that would address outdated ...

The First Step Act is changing the way that federal prison systems treat prisoners. It increases opportunities for rehabilitation, shortens sentences, and enhances prisoners' rights. The law is a ...

Yesterday the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to apply retroactively sentencing reform for crack-cocaine convictions that Congress passed last year, giving more than 12,000 inmates — 85 percent of ...

Lawmakers and advocates rallied at the Capitol Monday in Albany, calling for sentencing reform in New York State’s criminal ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A local grassroots organization, Center for Community Alternatives, is advocating for the passage of three prison reform bills aimed at protecting inmates. “The first bill is the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Activists rallied in Rochester on Tuesday, demanding the passage of sentencing reform bills. The proposed legislation aims to expand earned time credits, allow some people to ...

Last week, the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code and California Policy Lab published a report looking at the recidivism rates of people resentenced under some of the state’s major criminal ...

A former San Francisco prosecutor who helped produce a first-of-its-kind criminal justice reform law in the nation leads a nonprofit that works to safely release rehabilitated prisoners, allowing them ...

The ACLU of Oklahoma and other organizations have successfully advocated for the end of indefinite solitary confinement for ...