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.
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.
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
Federal consent decrees bind departments to monitorable reforms — use-of-force rules, training, accountability data — and the monitor's public reports are where compliance is fought over.
Monica Cummings · February 13, 2026
A handful of states now limit how long and why people can be held in restrictive housing, while most still place no statutory cap at all.
Colin Reyes · January 22, 2026