Courts & Law

Attending a protest is empowering. It can also be overwhelming for people new to protests. It's important to be well-informed.

Across the country, there’s an increase in the number of people with serious mental illnesses who are behind bars making prisons and j ...

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks t ...

WHYY is one of 15 news organizations in the Philadelphia Reentry Reporting Collaborative, ...

Comedian. Beloved television star. “America’s Dad.” Accused sexual predator. In June 2017, Bill Cosby faces a jury that will determ ...

In the nation’s poorest big city, with an overburdened shelter system that regularly turns away requests for housing, our eviction rate ...

In 2009, the Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott withdrew his name from consideration for the honorary position of professor of poetry at Oxford ...

Guest: Chris Hayes There are two American criminal justice systems – one you’d expect to find in a democracy, ...

One of the most complicated and delicate relationships a district attorney must balance is their relationship with the police. ...

Delaware prisoners are subjected to widespread abuse by guards and inadequate health care, more than two dozen former inmates, relatives ...

From the cops policing our streets to the judges in our courts, our justice system is one of the most important demonstrations ...

Guests: Nancy Baron-Baer, Tarek El-Messidi, Josh Shapiro Bomb threats, cemetery desecration and swastika graffiti ...

A Pennsylvania state judge has ruled that police illegally stopped a 22-year-old unarmed black man in East Germantown in 2015 before a do ...

Philadelphia is about to enter a race to elect the most powerful person in the Pennsylvania criminal justice system. Philly being a Democ ...

Sally Yates’ refusal to order the Department of Justice to defend Donald Trump’s immigration/refugee ban was decried as betra ...