Search

Byline: Terrance Coffie, Adjunct professor I'm an adjunct lecturer in New York University's school of social work. I have seen what happens to young Black and brown men trapped in [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed. It was the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today that it has found reasonable cause to believe [...]

BOSTON, MA -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department has found reasonable cause [...]

Twenty-five years after the infamous 1994 crime bill, too many criminal justice groups are simply reimagining mass incarceration. A quarter-century on, criminal justice advocates agree that the Violent Crime Control [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Former vice president Joe Biden tried to go on the attack against one of his sharpest critics on criminal justice reform, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and ended [...]

WASHINGTON -- In September 1994, as President Bill Clinton signed the new Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in an elaborately choreographed ceremony on the south lawn of the [...]

Byline: Colbert I. King In vintage Donald Trump fashion, the attempt by the man in the White House to take down former vice president Joe Biden ended up with Don [...]

Byline: Seung Min Kim and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign are opening up a fresh line of attack against Joe Biden, hitting [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott President Donald Trump's attacks on former vice president Joe Biden's response to crime plaguing inner cities during the 1980s and 1990s leaves out an inconvenient truth: In [...]

WASHINGTON -- Under pressure from Democrats, the Senate's Republicans have agreed to allow a series of votes on restricting gun sales in the aftermath of the shooting rampage in Orlando, [...]

Byline: Mary Sanchez She writes for the Kansas City Star. It was inevitable that Bill would undercut Hillary. The latest evidence is the scolding that Bill Clinton took from the [...]

In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on the promise of ''two for the price of one'': If he was elected, Americans would also get Hillary Clinton, lawyer and activist Democrat, working [...]

AS political candidates and pundits grapple with the legacy of the 1994 crime bill and the era of mass incarceration that has seen millions of African-Americans locked in the nation's [...]

''Gangs and drugs have taken over our streets,'' President Bill Clinton said in 1994 as he signed a far-reaching anti-crime bill to bipartisan acclaim. Defending the law at the time, [...]

AT a campaign event in Philadelphia last week, former President Bill Clinton was interrupted by protesters incensed about his 1994 crime bill. Mr. Clinton did not hold back: ''Because of [...]

WASHINGTON -- When Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1987, a few months ahead of his first and ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign, he [...]

Byline: David Domenici This fall, as federally funded Pell Grants helped almost 9 million high school graduates attend college, a significant number of would-be students were left to sit idle [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen Justice Department officials announced the results of a two-year investigation into civil rights violations at the Miami Police Department this month, it was the 11th time in two [...]

Sep 01, 2014 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Today, the United States won court approval of a settlement agreement to reform the ways in which the Portland Oregon Police Bureau [...]

Dec 20, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Justice Department today filed a civil rights lawsuit against Terry S. Johnson, in his official capacity as head of the Alamance [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: The Justice Department today filed a civil rights lawsuit against Terry S. Johnson, in his official capacity [...]

Dec 19, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Department of Justice today announced that it has entered into a comprehensive memorandum of agreement with the Juvenile Court of Memphis [...]

Memphis, TN -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee: The Department of Justice today announced that it has entered [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: The Department of Justice today announced that it has entered into a comprehensive memorandum of agreement with [...]

Sep 19, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today its findings that the Alamance County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) in North Carolina, under [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today its findings that the Alamance County Sheriff's Office [...]

Jun 22, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against the town of Colorado City, Ariz.; the city of Hildale, Utah; Twin City Water [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against the town of Colorado City, Ariz.; the city of [...]