Across the US, there is growing understanding that many local jails are grossly outdated and feature appalling conditions. This when…
Joseph McCabe, a military veteran from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, fell on hard times. In a bout of desperation, he stole…
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) just filed a non-binding resolution in the US House of Representatives calling for sweeping criminal justice…
Judges are generally held out as impartial, emotionally even-keeled arbiters of the law. Perhaps ignorance is bliss. That’s what Indiana…
Amid the overdose crisis, drug warrior district attorneys across the US have added a new tool to their prosecutorial arsenal:…
In a number of US cities where more people are now living without a place to call home, disdain for…
November 5 saw a raft of important county-level prosector elections around the country, and most of the results are now…
Even for the Trump era, it sounds like an extraordinary lapse in political decorum. At a University of Pittsburgh event…
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…