Changes to Oregon’s law would require the state Department of Justice to consider new evidence pointing to people’s innocence. The concept of a 2022 bill to address wrongful convictions in Oregon was ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Gov. Wes Moore about absolving people convicted of cannabis-related crimes, in what he calls “the most sweeping state level pardon in any state in American history.” ...

The Keystone State has the sixth-highest rate of wrongful convictions, according to a new study. Per the most recent data, 3.93 per 100,000 residents in Pennsylvania were wrongfully convicted of a ...

The number of people who receive criminal convictions under a new drug possession law passed by Oregon lawmakers last week wouldn’t be all that different from the years before voters decriminalized ...