Even for the Trump era, it sounds like an extraordinary lapse in political decorum. At a University of Pittsburgh event…
The involvement of for-profit in managing jails and prisons in one Pennsylvania county could be turned upside down by a…
Law enforcement in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, a sprawling rural-to-suburban county and the home of Penn State's law school, has been…
More women are being held in local jails than in state prisons, according to a report released October 29 by…
The first person I interviewed for this story—days before I knew I would write it, because I felt ashamed—was my…
After a flood wiped out Bexy Guerrero Salmiento’s home in 2013, her husband disappeared. Just days earlier, Manuel, Bexy and…
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater stands accused of firing his investigator for refusing to conduct a bogus criminal probe…
My heart drummed in time to my racing thoughts, which repeated an increasingly urgent command. Just. Fucking. Pee. But instead…
I need to go to the hospital," Alex Billmeyer told police officers as he was being booked into Dubuque County…
Gwendolyn Carr, the mother of Eric Garner—who was killed by NYPD police officer Daniel Pantaleo with a chokehold while being…