Kamala Harris stopped enforcing a widely supported sex offender law during her tenure as California’s attorney general, allowing sex predators to live near children.
President Donald Trump surprised Jon Ponder, a convicted felon turned activist, with a pardon on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. 
Defund the police, abolish prisons, use welfare to fight crime: These ideas and more are increasingly the rallying cries of prominent Democrats, eager for a revolution in America's criminal justice system. 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five inmates at a federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, have died since March 28 after contracting the coronavirus. Harold Lee’s family fears he could be next. 
A former adviser on criminal justice issues to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) was allegedly plotting a violent prison escape, stashing guns and ammunition inside a soon-to-be-opened prison, authorities revealed this week. 
Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday officially announced the formation of a presidential commission on criminal justice, revitalizing an influential body that in the 1960s fundamentally altered the American criminal justice system. 