Criminal Justice
Vox’s coverage of advances and failures of the American criminal justice system.
How can you punish Trump officials for violating the law, when federal law enforcement is controlled by Trump?
How America’s opioid crisis became a foreign policy issue.
How we design prisons and where we choose to build them says a lot about what we think of the people on the inside.
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s “ghost guns” opinion is extremely narrow, but it is correct.
The justices are likely to give gun companies a win, but they aren’t sure how they will do it yet.
Richard Glossip had everything going for him in his Supreme Court hearing. That turned out to be enough.
Good luck trying to win a suit against the gun industry in this Supreme Court.
Trump’s secretive plans to detain immigrants at Guantánamo do not put them beyond the reach of US law.
In the 1990s, thousands of Haitians were detained there in horrific conditions with little oversight.
The Bruen decision upended America’s gun laws. Years later, cops and courts are still trying to sort out the mess.
Journalist and author Nick Bilton explains the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace.
The Trump administration is freezing the Justice Department’s work on police reform.
The move is a dangerous attempt to rewrite the events of January 6. It’s also what the electorate voted for.
The Laken Riley Act passed with bipartisan support and will upend immigration enforcement.
The outgoing president pardoned Anthony Fauci and the January 6 committee — but the pardons give only limited protection.
Presidents routinely abuse the pardon, but Biden’s record-setting commutations underscore why reforms should be narrow.
The Court’s order is exceedingly narrow, but it is still a loss for Trump.
Trump is appealing to the same six Republicans who already ruled that he has broad immunity from the law. So he’s probably going to win.
Tough-on-crime laws are back. But next year could be different.
It’s easy to feel like gun violence is hopeless and never getting better. 2024 disproves that.
President Biden’s latest move against the death penalty is part of a much larger nationwide trend.
Trump told NBC that making the pardons would be one of his day-one priorities.
Here are three possible explanations.
Luigi Mangione was charged with murdering a health care CEO. The internet responded with a flood of support.
The killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO may be the first time a “ghost gun” was used in a high-profile shooting.
Pricey, legal weed is great news — for the black market.
His second term could mean fewer federal investigations, and settlements, for police misconduct.
Land of the free, home of the blazed.
Have presidents pardoned their family before? How could Biden still use his pardon powers?
The incoming president appears committed to placing awesome prosecutorial power in the hands of his loyalists.
Gaetz was a reckless pick, even by Trump’s standards.
Investors in private prisons think they’ve hit the jackpot with a second Trump presidency.
Turns out all of those indictments were pointless.
The backlash to criminal justice reform continues.
A mysterious Supreme Court case could change everything about criminal punishment.
Robert Roberson was sentenced to die on a theory that’s now widely viewed with skepticism by medical experts.
Multiple Florida jails opted not to evacuate despite being in the storm’s direct trajectory.
It’s unclear how the Supreme Court will resolve an unusually messy death penalty case.
The justices appear skeptical of “ghost guns.”