The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office has added three members of the Baltimore Police Department to its list of officers who prosecutors are forbidden to call to testify in court over concerns about...

In late January, amid reports that ICE would ramp up actions in Baltimore and growing outrage over conditions at a downtown ICE jail, staff at the Walters Art Museum received guidance outlining what t...

Join visionary Black lawyers in reimagining “what legal work in service of liberation actually looks like”

I only recently learned the phrase “movement lawyering.” Dorcas Gilmore, at Baltimore Action Legal Team, was the first to say it when I interviewed her for the Baltimore Legacy Project, and though I c...

The War on Drugs has ravaged Baltimore’s Black communities for more than a century. Thousands of residents have been pushed into the destabilizing pipeline of the criminal justice system, all under th...

Maryland Department of Juvenile Services introduces new guidelines for electronic ankle monitoring, including expanded use of detention for reoffenders.

In Maryland, some teens go straight to adult court. Learn when juveniles are tried as adults, how reverse waivers work, and what’s at stake.

Report showing poverty of those detained pretrial in local jails.

The move is Trump's latest effort to reshape how the capital operates.

BALT Presents: A Black August Screening of A Vision Of Grace!

The Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law hosted “Still Rising 10 Years After Freddie Gray’s Death: How Legal, Faith-Based & Community Advocacy Changed Policing in Baltimore.”