Four years ago, no one would have believed that the administration of former President Trump would have been defined, in part, by major criminal justice reforms. The bipartisan First Step Act ...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch criticized the expansion of federal criminal law during remarks on Friday, telling an audience in California that Americans’ liberties are at risk “when there’s a ...

When a cop killed a man in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, yesterday, the officer had reportedly pulled him over for hanging air fresheners on his rearview mirror*. It wasn't just the latest high-profile ...

Fast forward to today, and the number of federal criminal offenses for which people are prosecuted has become so huge that the Congressional Research Service gave up before it could count them all.

In North Carolina in 2011, Steven Pruner was sentenced to 45 days in the Durham County Sheriff’s custody for selling hot dogs from his food cart outside Duke Hospital without a proper permit. In ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses, in a bid to combat the overcriminalization of federal ...

A congressional subcommittee is calling the prosecution of a trail runner in Grand Teton National Park “overcriminalization,” according to a recent letter sent to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the ...

Jacksonville, Florida is getting a new $350 million courthouse. If they can pass the fire inspection, that is: Courthouse-builder Turner Construction has made progress adjusting fire controls, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That disagreement, revealed in an email chain that Sunseri's lawyers obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, raises ...