On March 31, Brandon Townsend walked out of the Durham County Detention Center nearly three years after he was charged in a drive-by shooting that killed 13-year-old Shakanah China at a Durham ...

NEW ORLEANS — A woman forced to the ground by two sheriff’s deputies in an arrest recorded by her son. Demonstrators tear-gassed and hit by rubber projectiles while protesting the death of George ...

NEW ORLEANS – Justice Lab, the ACLU of Louisiana’s intensive litigation campaign against racist policing, today announced a first-of-its-kind initiative to provide free civil representation to people ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As she moves to an assistant professor position at Harvard Medical School and a new leadership role, Narjust ...

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School recently launched Justice Lab clinic, a program centered around legal reform and advocacy for social justice. The clinic adds to Penn Carey Law’s eight ...

Nearly a dozen federal lawsuits alleging racist and abusive tactics by police officers in Louisiana have been filed in recent weeks as part of an initiative by the American Civil Liberties Union of ...

The Race and Justice Lab (RJL), in collaboration with RIT's Center for Public Safety Initiatives, uses social science and other disciplinary research methods to explicate the impact of the criminal ...

Revelations of the extent of mismanagement and forensic problems at the Houston Police Department's crime lab rocked the administration of former Mayor Lee Brown, who left office more than a year ago ...

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Often when we consider topics like big data and predictive analytics, we envision numbers in a spreadsheet or hidden behind the antiseptic geometries of charts and graphs. Data often has a lot to say ...

The New York City Police Department Police Academy graduation ceremony held at Madison Square Garden, Dec. 29, 2015. (Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco) The Department of Justice today announced the ...