Criminal Justice

In a recent ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said that employers are legally responsible for protec ...

The former top prosecutor for the state of Pennsylvania is likely to soon be behind bars, more than two years after she was convicted and ...

Pa.'s DOC has agreed to treat the state’s nearly 5,000 inmates with hepatitis C over the next three years.

Witness to Innocence, a national anti-death penalty organization based in Philadelphia, ...

Two people who have accused priests of molestation in Philadelphia have filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and ...

The Tree of Life shooting, which left 11 Jewish worshippe ...

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s new victim’s compensation program is up and running, less than a ...

Dorothy Johnson-Speight still holds the burden of a mother’s pain. ...

Instead of directly giving inmates letters from their lawyers, the DOC now photocopies them in front of recipients, then temporarily retains the original.

Seven nights a week, Ronald Lewis drives from Germantown to South Philadelphia to watch over a hulking boiler inside a chemical plant as ...

Pennsylvania leaders are teaming up in an effort to reduce the number of people with mental illness in county jails across the commonweal ...

Inmates’ rights groups are trying to turn their opposition to recent state prison policies into a campaign is ...

It was an early autumn afternoon in 1975 — a moment that Steve Austin wishes he could take back. ...

How much does your county spend on public defense? In Penns ...

The opioid crisis has brought with it an onslaught of drug cases that are adding to the burdens of public defenders.