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Keystone Crossroads

Criminal Justice

Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman, center, speaks to reporters Dec. 6, 2018 about the October 26 multi-vehicle crash that killed two Warwick High School students. At left is Lititz Borough Police Chief Kerry Nye. At right, Lancaster County Assistant District Attorney Jared Hinsey. (Brett Sholtis/WITF News)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Lancaster County tops list for charging heroin dealers with homicide

Lancaster County pursues drug-induced homicide charges more than any other county in the United States, according to a recent report from data gathering project Mission LISA.

6 years ago

Middle school students change classes in Philadelphia. (Jessica Kourkounis/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Juvenile court judges waking up to trauma’s effect on kids

If one is looking for the most traumatized youths in Philadelphia, a good starting place might be the cou ...

6 years ago

State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Algorithm to reform criminal sentencing in Pa. faces deluge of criticism

The algorithm is supposed to make the criminal sentencing in Pa. fairer. Critics say it will exacerbate inequities.

7 years ago

A building is seen from afar.
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court rules employers legally responsible for protecting workers’ sensitive data

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

7 years ago

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane arrives at Montgomery County courthouse
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Former Pa. Attorney General Kane loses appeal, may soon head to jail

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 ...

7 years ago

Officers at the Cumberland County Prison walk the halls in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. Department of Corrections to provide costly hepatitis C treatment to nearly 5,000 inmates

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

7 years ago

At the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Thursday, the national anti-death penalty organization Witness to Innocence calls for Pennsylvania to abolish the death penalty. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Exonerated death-row inmates push Pa. to abolish capital punishment

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

7 years ago

Attorney Jeff Anderson announces a suit against the Pennsylvania’s eight Catholic dioceses on behalf of victims of clergy child sexual abuse. He is joined by victim Daniel Hillanbrand and Hillanbrand’s wife, Donna. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

New lawsuit against Pa. Catholic dioceses demands more secrets be revealed

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

7 years ago

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A rally took place at Point State Park Friday, November 9, 2018, to honor the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. (Virginia Alvino Young/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Should the accused Tree of Life shooter be executed? It depends on who you ask

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

7 years ago

Listen 4:51
Ken Feinberg addresses a reporter's question during a news conference Tuesday Nov. 13, 2018, in Philadelphia. Feinberg and Camille Biros, not pictured, are administrators of claims submitted to the Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program, a new clergy child sexual abuse victim compensation fund set up by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. George Mitchell, background, is chairing the committee. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Clergy abuse victims fund launches in Philadelphia, other Pa. dioceses to come

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

7 years ago

Dorothy Johnson-Speight, founder of Mothers in Charge, sitting before a painting of her murdered son, Khaliiq Jabbar Johnson. (Bastiaan Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

From grief to greater understanding: One mother’s quest to heal both sides of the criminal justice divide

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

7 years ago

Vic Walczak, legal director of the ACLU Pennsylvania, says the new policy is not secure enough because corrections staff could potentially access mail. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

ACLU sues Pennsylvania over stricter policy on prison mail

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

7 years ago

Ronald Lewis’ criminal record will be sealed in 2020 thanks to a state law supported by both candidates for Pennsylvania governor. (Aaron Moselle/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

One thing Pa. gubernatorial candidates agree on: Criminal justice system needs change

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

7 years ago

Listen 5:07
John Wetzel, Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections, in a 2018 file photo. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. launches center to help counties reduce prison population with mental illness

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

7 years ago

Book donation programs were curtailed in late August when a rash of illnesses among prison staff — thought to be related to synthetic drug exposure--prompted DOC officials to lock down the entire prison system. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Protesters plan to confront Wolf over new Pa. prison policies

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

7 years ago

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