As Trump’s potential “comprehensive crime bill” looms, Congress is already advancing harmful crime-related legislation with bipartisan support.

For more than a year, President Donald Trump has been threatening a “comprehensive crime bill,” though rarely with much specificity on either the makeup of the bill or the timeline to pass it. But the absence (so far) of the big bill Trump has been demanding does not mean that there won’t be any federal crime-related legislation this year. Smaller ...

A visit to Germany’s prisons highlights a postwar commitment to human dignity. What would it take for the United States to do the same?

Since 2013, the Vera Institute of Justice has organized study delegations to visit Germany, where the conditions of incarceration are designed to promote safety and dignity. Vera’s goal is to stimulate breakthrough thinking and ambitious criminal justice system reform in the United States by learning about the German system’s operations, underpinni ...

Under former Mayor Eric Adams, 48 people died in New York City jails or immediately upon release from Department of Correction (DOC) custody. Any death is a tragedy—but 48, which may in fact be an undercount, represents a complete failure of the city to keep incarcerated people safe.For decades, Rikers Island has been dysfunctional and traumatizing ...