In July 2025, social media users circulated claims that about 70% or 72% of people detained under U.S. President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign had no criminal record. It is true, according ...

Data obtained and published by the Deportation Data Project shows that in the first nine months of President Trump's second term, around 75,000 people arrested by ICE did not have a criminal record, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. We help organizations achieve their impact vision. In this Q&A, Eliza Roady, Sorenson Impact Institute Managing Director of Impact ...

More than 70 million Americans have some form of a criminal record, which can entail an arrest, charge, or conviction. That record can go on to limit access to housing, employment, and education — ...

New federal data brings more evidence that immigration enforcement agents are not primarily targeting people with violent criminal records.

A criminal record, regardless of whether a person was convicted or not, can foreclose opportunity throughout a person's life. Entities like landlords, employers and loan officers regularly run ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Sixteen years ago, during my last semester of law school, I caused a drunk-driving crash that killed my girlfriend. I pleaded guilty to negligent manslaughter ...

Matthew Charles had been President Donald Trump’s special guest at the 2019 State of the Union address. He’d met with state governors and members of Congress. He’d been featured in national media ...

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 ...

Monique Lewis wants to be a preschool teacher as she loves working and being with children. The San Diego-based mother has three of her own: a 21-year-old daughter, and two boys, ages 15 and 9. But in ...