Marcus Hopkins has been trying to have his criminal record expunged for years, a process which left him hopeless. His past kept him from employment and housing opportunities, for incidents he said ...

All immigration officials warn all green card holders without exception that a criminal record can lead to revocation of the ...

Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees ...

ICE is holding around 59,000 detainees in facilities across the country, likely setting a record high, according to internal ...

Less than a third of ICE detainees at the Butler County Jail had criminal convictions, and most were for nonviolent crimes.

All criminal records would remain accessible to police, prosecutors and judges for internal use, and sexual offenses, many of which require public registration, would be exempt.

Updated on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation to create a system to automatically expunge criminal records of people convicted of certain low-level ...

In analyzing criminal cases in Baltimore last year, Maryland lawyer and software programmer Matthew Stubenberg found 23,386 instances in which people convicted of crimes could have had their ...

A criminal conviction can present obstacles to everything from jobs to housing. Since 2017, more than 20 states have expanded or added laws that help people seal or expunge their criminal records.

They're staring down a caseload of 7.6 million noncitizens – including more than 660,000 with criminal records or pending charges, according to ICE.

If Trump had looked at individual cases, the long criminal records of some Jan. 6 defendants may have raised some red flags. Theodore Middendorf was accused by Illinois prosecutors of "Predatory ...

With the post-9/11 push for more background checks, the advent of online databases and the steep increase in the number of people with convictions, criminal records have become a serious barrier ...