A report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that, as of midyear 2022, while at least 30 percent (or 197,000 people) of the jail population was convicted, at least... Read more »
Innocent until proven guilty is a beautiful credo. Unfortunately, people who haven’t been convicted of a crime are treated in ways that are darn near criminal relatively often. For many poor people,... Read more »
A Washington county executive reports that the number of incarcerated youths has dropped dramatically since King County began sending more young offenders to counseling than to detention, Kery Murakami reports for Route... Read more »