Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We wanted the definition so we could talk about policy, we didn’t want the definition to be the policy," said Jan Collins, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and key lawmakers at the Capitol are struggling to find a consensus over solitary confinement reform, and there are few solutions in sight. Assemblyman Chris Holden, ...

When Massachusetts lawmakers passed a sweeping criminal justice reform bill in 2018, advocates and state officials hailed it as a significant accomplishment. But one legislator who helped draft the ...