Court will rule if people who are homeless can be fined or jailed for camping on public property — even if they have no other ...

Jail population has been significantly cut

Actor Michael K. Williams was among those on hand Friday for the launch of the New Jersey Reentry Ambassador Program, an initiative that’s enlisting the ...

The state and protesters share the goals of lowering recidivism rates and ending the disproportionate number of black and Latino youth going in to the ...

The roughly 112 people in the residential treatment program take courses on life skills, stress and anger reduction and gang intervention.

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

Murphy is still working the phones and hoping for help from Sweeney to get enough votes to pass the bill.

Social justice advocates say a Yale Law School study is the ammunition needed to end isolated confinement by law in New Jersey.

Newark officials unveiled a new jail at Police Headquarters on Clinton Avenue -- a facility that’s no comparison to the old facilities at 31 Green ...

Newspapers win a victory in Trenton. The governor loses out on priority bills. Who's got the power now? Out with the old, in with the ...

A holiday rush to pass measures on salary hikes and outside income for the state's top tier. Could one of them torpedo your newspaper? A ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a 287(g) program that allows ICE to work with state and local law enforcement agencies.

Over the last three years New Jersey has reduced its prison population by nearly 10 percent, second most in the entire country. At the same ...

Dueling arguments over fantasy sports betting. A game of skill or chance? If lawmakers decide it's gambling they could decide to regulate it. Public school ...

Bail reform on the ballot? Trenton's mayor on how that benefits his town. Princeton's mayor wants more low income housing. The state agency meant to ...

Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson says that it is time for bail reform and that Gov. Chris Christie is moving in the right direction with it.

The streets are cordoned. The police on high alert. We cover the wake for a Jersey City rookie. The crabs are toxic. But fishermen are ...

Deputy Speaker Assemblyman John Burzichelli says the world has changed a great deal since the Constitution last looked at the issue of bail. He hopes ...