Criminal Justice

The pandemic delayed weddings, concerts and plenty of other life events. But for many, it also delayed justice. Idaho Matters learns about courtroom backlogs in our region from Mountain West News Bureau reporter Madelyn Beck.

Supreme Inequality is a revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years. Contrary to what Americans…

For men and women returning to society from incarceration, access to affordable housing is key to their success. But with Idaho's tightening market…

The ACLU of Idaho has long lobbied for change in criminal justice, urging officials to take a closer look at things like mandatory minimums, prison…

In order to prevent people with severe mental trauma from receiving unfair treatment in the judicial system, many states have implemented an "insanity…

Over the weekend, about 20 people gathered in front of the Mini-Cassia Criminal Justice Center in Burley to protest the death of an inmate that occurred…

Do personal biases affect the criminal justice system? Implicit biases are subconscious preconceptions that people formulate unintentionally. They can…

This City Club of Boise forum was recorded on Friday, the 1st of March, 2019 at the Grove Hotel in Boise.Criminal justice reform recently attracted…

On Wednesday, the Malheur Enterprisebroke the story that 35 percent of people deemed to be criminally insane in Oregon and then let out of supervised care…

On Friday, an intergovernmental organization hosted a hearing in Boulder, Colorado on the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the...