Issues with bail reform blamed for city’s struggles with lesser crimes like package theft

Some praise reforms, others call for them to be rolled back

Crime and bail reform leading local leaders to bring back a decades-old program

Dramatic reduction since 2017, but advocates fear new tough-on-crime bills

Former governor and panel discuss reform in the context of concerns about crime

Advocates say anti-crime focus could stymie advances for nonwhite New Jerseyans

The bills include harsher penalties, mandatory minimum sentences

A vote on bail reform is scheduled to take place in the Assembly on Thursday

More low-risk defendants were released with summonses or citations instead of warrants since bail reform was implemented in 2017.

Budget hearings continue through April and part of May.

The report found 6,000 fewer people, or 40%, in jail in October 2018 compared with the same date in October 2012.

The Monmouth County prosecutor announced a program that would offer drug treatment services to inmates before their release from the county jail. The program is ...

Elie Honig recently stepped down as director of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice in the state Attorney General's Office, after helping to implement ...

The pressing issues of school funding and bail reform were discussed in the Senate Budget and Appropriations hearing.

Algorithms are increasingly being implemented in a variety of contexts, including New Jersey's new bail system.

Since bail reform went into effect Jan. 1, numbers show New Jersey's prison population decreased. But critics of changes say there was no data released ...

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If you have a phone, you're paying a fee for 911 emergency service. That's what the bill says. But is that where your money goes? ...

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop says that carrying an illegal firearm should be classified as a violent offense, which is not the case under the ...

Two senators plan to introduce legislation that would detain people who committed unlawful possession of a firearm, which they see as a loophole to New ...