Criminal Justice

While most incarcerated workers today help maintain correctional facilities, others are leased out to private companies or take part in work-release programs.

Sixteen-year-old Alexander McClay Williams remains the youngest person the state has put to death. He was exonerated by Gov. Tom Wolf after researchers dug up new evidence.

The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III."

In 2021, USA Gymnastics agreed to pay hundreds of the female survivors $380 million to settle their claims.

Twelve jurors and six alternates were finalized on Friday. Opening arguments are expected to begin on Monday.

County district attorneys are in line for millions of dollars, but under-resourced public defenders say they’ve been sidelined.

Martin Devlin, Manuel Santiago and Frank Jastrzembski are accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man the jury exonerated in a 1991 rape and murder.

Advocates say too much talent is sitting on the sidelines because criminal records are holding some applicants back.

A new pop-up installation in Center City advocates for clean slate laws using life-size stacks of paperwork.

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi sentenced Alec Donovan to 30 years of supervised release, prosecutors said.

It's been a year since Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on spying allegations.

The sentence marks a stunning fall for the 32-year-old former crypto executive who was once seen as the future of finance.

The new gag order on former President Donald Trump specifically bars him from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors or jurors in his first criminal trial.

Since 2016, Blanche Carney has overseen the city’s prisons and jails, which have been dealing with violence and the escape of four prisoners in a span of six months last year.

Kimbrady Carriker is charged for the seemingly random shootings in Kingsessing in July 2023.