Reporting on courts, prosecutors and oversight bodies, from the filing of a claim to the enforcement of an order. Each piece explains what a judgment decided, what it declined to decide, and how the outcome changes the position of people bringing similar cases. For readers following litigation closely.
More than a dozen states now reallocate prisoners to their home addresses for redistricting, unwinding a count that inflated rural districts with people who cannot vote there.
Monica Cummings · June 6, 2026
The First Step Act promised early release for the dying and incapacitated, and the data shows the mechanism works when used — and is rarely used.
Monica Cummings · May 14, 2026
Supreme Court rulings banned mandatory JLWOP and required individualized sentencing, yet more than a thousand people are still serving sentences imposed as children.
Colin Reyes · April 22, 2026
National standards call for 150 felonies or 400 misdemeanors a year; heavy counties assign multiples of that, and the consequences land on the clients, in years of prison.
Monica Cummings · March 30, 2026
Justice-system fees attach to everything from arraignment to probation, and nonpayment converts to license suspension, warrants, and jail time — the mechanism courts now call legal financial obligations.
Monica Cummings · March 8, 2026