Criminal Justice

Eugene Gilyard and Lance Felder spent 16 years behind bars until an inmate serving time for another murder confessed.

By some accounts, nearly half of America's incarcerated population is mentally ill — and journalist Alisa Roth argues that most aren't getting the treatment they need.

The reconfigured pretrial justice system virtually eliminates money bail in favor of methods that aim to ensure defendants on release stay out of trouble and show up for trial

Members of a Republican delegation to Russia over the Independence Day holiday said they made a clear request of their hosts: Don't attack any more American elections.

Guest: Jonathan Rosen Today we’ll discuss the MS-13 gang, who is so often referred to by President Trump when calling for in ...

A new report offers recommendations to improve how Pennsylvania handles its death penalty — including providing public funding for indigent defense.

Philadelphia police arrest 29 demonstrators who refused to move from the entrance to the federal facility at Eighth and Cherry streets.

More and more, trouble is following fellow drug users, friends and relatives of those dying from overdoses.

Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has garnered a lot of attention since assuming office in January, not just locally but nationally as well.

Larry Krasner's pledge is in response to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions saying that fleeing gangs or domestic violence no longer qualifies as cause for seeking asylum.

A Pennsylvania police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager has been charged with criminal homicide.

The 280-page bipartisan effort, “Report on Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” examined 17 aspects of the system, and proposed a series of reforms

The outreach came in the wake of the president's recent spate of pardons and commutations, most of which were granted to public figures or those who received media attention.

A bipartisan report out of the Pennsylvania state General Assembly is fueling ...

A 19-year-old man who authorities allege threatened to shoot students and faculty at his high school graduation is now facing an additional charge of terrorism.