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Criminal Justice

(Steve Ruark/AP Photo, file)
Courts & Law

Juneteenth: Freedom’s promise is still denied to thousands of blacks unable to make bail

June 19 marks Juneteenth, a celebration of the de facto end of slavery in the United States.

7 years ago

Meek Mill reaches out to supporters outside the Criminal Justice Center before his hearing to ask for a new trial on 10-year-old gun and drug charges.
Courts & Law

Rapper Meek Mill must wait on request for new trial

Mill and his lawyers are asking for a new trial on a 2008 conviction on drug and gun charges.

7 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Susan Walsh/AP Photo, file)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

AG Sessions bashes Philadelphia, defends new border policies in Scranton visit

Sessions spoke at Lackawanna College, one of a handful of engagements in which he's defended controversial federal immigration enforcement policies.

7 years ago

Listen 1:31
NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, June 12, 2018

Concerns continue over elevated cancer rates in some Bucks and Montgomery County towns, despite a new state Department of Health study. O ...

Air Date: June 12, 2018

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Legislative Hall in Dover. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Delaware legislature advances marijuana expungement bill

The measure would benefit as many as 1,247 adults convicted between 1977 and 2015.

7 years ago

(File/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Chemours ex-worker pleads guilty in China trade secrets case

A former employee of a chemical company spun off from the DuPont Co. has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets and sell them to Chinese investors.

7 years ago

This screen capture from the CrimeMapping website shows recent incidents of crime in Wilmington. (CrimeMapping.com)
Community

New Wilmington crime mapping tool aims at improving transparency

The city of Wilmington has launched an online crime mapping program aimed at improving transparency, and the police department’s interaction with the public.

7 years ago

Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner
Courts & Law

Atlantic County ramps up drug-induced homicide prosecutions

By many metrics, Atlantic County is at the epicenter of the opioid epidemic in New Jersey. It saw its rate of overdose deaths double in 2016.

7 years ago

Isaac Gardner (left), of the Justice for David Jones Coalition, leads a small protest outside the district attorney's office calling for charges against Ryan Pownall, the Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot Jones during a traffic stop.
Courts & Law

A year later, community members demand justice for Philly man slain by cop

They're calling for officer who fired fatal shot to be criminally charged. The city's district attorney's office is investigating.

7 years ago

Asa Khalif of Black Lives Matter uses a bullhorn during an April protest at Starbucks in Center City Philadelphia. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

Philly police update defiant trespass policy after Starbucks arrests

The Philadelphia Police Department updated its policy on when to arrest people accused of trespassing on private property.

7 years ago

Listen 2:11
Elizabeth Geyer shares the story of her boyfriend, George Trudel, an inmate at Graterford with a life sentence. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Criminal justice reform advocates decry Pa.’s life without parole law at Chester rally

Elizabeth Geyer has been talking herself hoarse trying to change Pennsylvania’s criminal justice laws. She says a bill stalled i ...

7 years ago

Three of four Democratic candidates for Delaware Attorney General debated in Wilmington. Seated left to right are Lakresha Roberts, Chris Johnson and Kathy Jennings.(Zoe Read/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Democratic candidates for Delaware Attorney General debate in Wilmington

Three of four Democratic candidates in Delaware’s Attorney General primary discussed solutions to mass incarceration during a debate in ...

7 years ago

Sakinah Crew comforts her 7-year-old son, Swyhir, during a rally to bring justice for the killing of Sandrea Williams. She was killed in a random act of gun violence outside of her mother’s home in West Philadelphia. Their teenage cousin was also injured by gunfire that night. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Community

Gun Violence Awareness Month begins with burial of Philly teen

On the eve of Gun Violence Awareness Month friends and family of Sandrea Williams, remembered her in West Philadelphia.

7 years ago

A 1943 photograph of a detention hospital for infected women in Leesville, LA.
Radio Times
Health

The American Plan: the government’s incarceration of ‘promiscuous’ women

Guest: Scott Stern The United States government incarcerated tens of thousands of “promiscuous” women in the ...

Air Date: May 31, 2018 10:00 am

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Rapper Meek Mill leaves Philadelphia's Criminal Justice Center Wednesday morning, May 30, 2018, where his request for a new judge was denied.
Courts & Law

Philly judge says he doesn’t have authority to reassign Meek Mill’s case

Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley has presided over Mill’s case since his 2007 arrest on drug and gun charges. The rapper and the longtime judge have publicly feuded.

7 years ago

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