Criminal Justice

After Dorothy Johnson-Speight lost her son to gun violence nearly two decades ago, she started a movement to take her city back by eradicating gun violence.

Civil rights lawyer Stanley King said firing shots was an abuse of power.

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

Bomb squads were called to a post office in Atlanta on Monday about a suspicious package sent to CNN, investigators said Monday

Officials released the names of all 11 victims during a news conference Sunday, all of them middle-aged or elderly.

A convicted murderer who once headed a notorious Baltimore prison gang testified Friday for Delaware prosecutors against four fellow inma ...

An Ocean County jury convicted a police officer and his wife of stealing $187,000 by filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds related to Superstorm Sandy.

How one woman's experience with her county public defender's office resulted in 12 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit.

Philadelphia has been awarded an additional $4 Million by the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge with the goal of decr ...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "brutally murdered" as part of a meticulous operation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.

Men standing trial in connection with the deadly Delaware prison riot in February 2017 contend the court system is stacked against them b ...

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

Joey Merlino, a former Philadelphia mob boss, was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan to two years in federal prison for operating an illega ...

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

A New Jersey couple faced a judge Friday to learn their fate after admitting to stealing from more than 20 Sandy victims.