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Courts & Law

This June 1, 2018, file photo shows a housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix in Collegeville, Pa. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)
Incarceration
Pennsylvania
Public Health

‘More harm than good’: Most Pa. prisoners are vaxxed, but isolating COVID rules remain

More than 75% of the people incarcerated in Pennsylvania prisons are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but only 22% of corrections staff have gotten the shots.

4 years ago

A sign warns visitors,
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Hearing on Mariner East 2 reroute shows public rifts persist over pipeline project

Sunoco’s defenders say the plan will help complete the work, while opponents urge DEP to deny the permits.

4 years ago

The Supreme Court is seen on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Washington.
Law
LGBTQ
Philadelphia

Supreme Court sides with Catholic agency in Philly that denied same-sex foster parents

Catholic Social Services is affiliated with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The agency has said that its beliefs prevent it from certifying same-sex couples as fosters.

4 years ago

Exterior of the Supreme Court
NPR
Health Care
Law

Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Obamacare

The decision threw out the challenge to the law, on grounds that Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision.

4 years ago

Judge's gavel on wooden table with law books. (bigstockphoto.com)
Crime
Delaware
Incarceration

How a Delaware man now suspected in four murders avoided prison after violating probation

A Delaware probation officer wanted Keith Gibson to spend more years in prison. A public defender and the judge pushed back, and he was set free.

4 years ago

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Could be: Ms. A.B. is seeking asylum in the U.S. after suffering more than a decade of domestic violence in El Salvador. Attorney General Merrick Garland is vacating controversial legal decisions his predecessors issued in her case. (Kevin D. Liles for NPR)
NPR
Immigration
Social Justice

The Justice Department overturns rules that limited asylum for survivors of violence

Survivors of domestic and gang violence have better odds of getting asylum in the U.S. as the Justice Department reverses several controversial rulings from Trump.

4 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, the office’s CIU (Conviction Integrity Unit), and exonerees stood at the site of the statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, which was removed from Thomas Paine Plaza last year, calling the release of a report on wrongful convictions in the city on June 15, 2021, “an end of an era.” (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Incarceration
Policing

Krasner finds ‘horrendous abuses of power’ among cops, prosecutors in special report

In a scathing report, Philly DA Larry Krasner accused Philadelphia law enforcement officials of winning convictions in decades-old cases through unjust means.

4 years ago

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Radio Times
LGBTQ
Religion

The Supreme Court weighs religious rights vs. LGBTQ rights

We discuss Fulton v. City of Philadelphia ahead of the Supreme Court decision that pits the religious rights against LGBTQ civil rights.

Air Date: June 15, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Crime
Philadelphia

Krasner: Philly is limited in enforcing against riding dirt bikes, ATVs on city streets

The DA’s comments come as Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a bill cracking down on people riding ATVs on city streets.

4 years ago

Asia Pratt holds her son Azi while standing outside
Criminal Justice
Law
Philadelphia

‘That ain’t justice’: Case backlog, jail conditions frustrate people in Philly’s criminal justice system

Pandemic restrictions left many people sitting in jails waiting for their days in court. Their loved ones and attorneys want the wheels of justice moving again.

4 years ago

Listen 3:11
A well pad on a Tioga County farm. There is a moratorium against drilling in the eastern part where the Delaware River Basin Commission has jurisdiction. (Scott Detrow/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Public Spaces

Judge tosses suit seeking end to Delaware River drilling ban

Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia ruled the GOP had no legal right to sue, writing the dispute "is primarily partisan and is best resolved through the political process.”

4 years ago

FILE - In this Monday, June 7, 2021, file photo, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. Abbate says the FBI is sending its strongest message ever that employees who engage in sexual misconduct should be scared because “we’re coming for them.” (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Policing
Public Safety
Social Justice

‘We mean it’: FBI takes on sexual misconduct in its ranks

Faced with a #MeToo reckoning, the FBI says it is getting serious about sexual harassment in its ranks.

4 years ago

Zahid Quraishi was confirmed as a U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey. (Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)
NPR

The Senate has just confirmed the first Muslim American federal judge in U.S. history

A son of Pakistani immigrants has just been confirmed as the first Muslim American federal judge in U.S. history.

4 years ago

FILE - This image taken from a Sept. 14, 2019, video and released in a U.S. Attorney detention memorandum, shows Brian Mark Lemley Jr, driving, and Patrik Mathews, passenger seat, passing through a toll booth near Norfolk, Va., en route to Georgia. The pair, along with William Garfield Bilbrough IV, plotted to carry out
Crime
Delaware
Social Justice

Canadian member of extremist group with Delaware ties who talked about fomenting ‘civil war’ pleads guilty to firearms charges

Patrik Jordan Mathews briefly lived in the Newark area when he was caught on tape constructing rifle parts and talking about committing violent crimes, authorities say.

4 years ago

A police officer drives in Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Policing

Philadelphia police officer accused of deleting suspect’s video during arrest

The PPD officer who arrested Jacob Giddings allegedly deleted the video of the arrest on Giddings' phone, which was all on police body camera footage.

4 years ago

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