Criminal Justice

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez hits the campaign re-election trail. As Bill Cosby’s pre-trial hearings near their conclusion, his ...

Philadelphia’s public defender questions the legality of the city’s probation policies.  The Human Rights Campaign Foundati ...

Louisiana's attorney general ruled out criminal charges Tuesday against two white Baton Rouge police officers in the fatal shooting of a black man outside a convenience store.

In New Jersey, there’s a bail algorithm designed to recommend whether you sit behind bars or walk free until your trial. The state’s court system recently abandoned cash bail.

We have weather updates from around the region. The Pennsylvania Senate passes a bill to increase gun ownership restrictions on people co ...

New charges against Bob Brady associate Ken Smukler are connected to a 2014 congressional campaign he ran for Marjorie Margolies.

The police-assisted diversion program is designed to redirect low-level offenders suspected of prostitution or drug possession to community-based services.

A new directive broadens the scope of interests considered at sentencing from the direct impact on criminals and their victims to include the effect on taxpayers.

Model Janice Dickinson's defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby can move forward after the California Supreme Court refused an appeal from the comedian.

Mill was sentenced in November to two to four years in prison for violating probation on a roughly decade-old gun and drug case.

Penn hosts discussion of Philadelphia rapper's case as emblematic of a system clouded with racial bias.

The 24-page report provides a snapshot of these former inmates – their gender, race and what ZIP codes they’re expected to call home.

Families of 3 of the 4 young men murdered on a Bucks County farm last summer are suing the confessed killer, Cosmo DiNardo, as well as his cousin and co-defendant Sean Kratz

Convicted felons, fugitives, domestic abusers and others not legally allowed to buy guns try to do so anyway. They’re known as “lie and try” buyers.