Older people in the prison population typically have many years left to serve, even as they pose no risk to community safety

Measures would cut prison population but face pushback

Pushback was swift when the governor said revoking parole for technical violations is too harsh a penalty

‘New Jerseyans serving time in prison or on probation or parole now have an expedited path to freedom’

Public defender says fundamental change is needed

Arduous reapplication process is required

Retired Superior Court judge and a university president were behind the initiative

With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Phil Murphy restored the right to vote to thousands of New Jerseyans on probation and parole.

Advocates and lawmakers want the state to study the impact and legacy of slavery in New Jersey and take action in the lame-duck session.

New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission, which includes designees of both political parties, reached unanimous conclusions

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

Tuesday will be the governor’s day to shape reality. Monday, the liberal groups seized the bullhorn.

New Jersey among the top in the nation for shrinking its prison population. See how it's an example for the rest of America. It's been ...

New Jersey leads the nation in terms of lowering its incarceration rate, about 35 percent since 1999. There has also been a 38 percent drop ...

Integrity House serves over 2,000 people a year with services that include: residential treatment, halfway house treatment, supportive housing and outpatient treatment. The organization has ...

Here's what's at stake: high property taxes, double death taxes, roads and bridge fixes, pension and school funding and casino gambling. It's election day. Will ...

Lessons from Ferguson? We do the opposite. Raising alarms about rocketing immigrants through deportation hearings. Megan's Law and murder. And Jersey's tech revolution. The glory ...

After a man on parole allegedly murdered a mother and her foster child in Long Branch, officials are pushing passage of a bill to decrease ...

A re-entry program has been created to help ex-offenders transition back into the community.

A downtown Jersey City councilman unseats the incumbent in the mayoral election. Rutgers University chooses a new athletic director. The Human Services commissioner tells us ...