Lynn University Criminal Justice Program

Lock'em up policies for criminal justice and corrections don't improve public safety and cost millions of tax dollars. Rehabilitation is always the more effective and cost-effective approach.

Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have already begun to impact the state.

A murder highlights the millions of dollars from a new cybercrime - legitimately purchased gift card funds are diverted into the hands of organized crime. It also means you need to take care with gift card purchases - only from the counter or online from legitimate sources.

Derry murder is the latest fallout from N.H.'s ties to global gift card scam New Hampshire appears to be the epicenter of a global criminal operation involving stolen gift cards, rented warehouses, and millions of dollars' worth of Apple products, authorities say. A murder in Derry is among the fallout.

A Black defendant convicted of a death penalty offense and initially sentenced to death row discovered his appointed counsel was a member of the K*K. Welcome to Alabama.

On the advice of Klonsel: A look under the hood of an Alabama injustice Rocky Myers, a Black man, was sentenced to death after being represented at trial by John Mays, a court-appointed attorney long affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.