Criminal Justice

The spike in Philadelphia youth involved in gun violence has staff at the school district’s Juvenile Justice Services Center School calling for help.

The bill aims to limit the length of probation sentences and the circumstances under which a non-violent offender on probation can be sent to jail.

The fact that Lozier was involved in the decision to shoot, and then was the one to sign off on whether it was appropriate, has raised serious alarm among policing experts.

Supporters of both Abu-Jamal and slain police officer Daniel Faulker agree the criminal justice system is "broken" — for very different reasons.

A French judicial official said the suspect was being held Tuesday on the basis of a Turkish arrest warrant.

The federal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, former companion of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, began in earnest this week.

The state attorney general’s office said Margo Davidson pleaded guilty Thursday in Dauphin County Court to five counts, including theft by deception.

Kim Potter is charged with manslaughter in Wright’s death in April in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb.

After being convicted in the Fox rankings, Porat could end up in prison for 25 years. He’ll also likely lose his position as tenured professor.

Christopher Williams was released in Feb. after the Philly DA’s Office found that the prosecution had coerced an informant to lie and had hidden other evidence.

Prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision that overturned Bill Cosby’s conviction.

Legal experts say a conviction isn’t as certain as it might seem — at least on the most serious charge she faces, manslaughter.

Keir Bradford-Grey, former chief of the Philadelphia Defenders Association, explains why the defendants’ claims of self-defense did not hold up in court.

Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, co-director for the racial justice organization Power Live Free said the case was about much more than what happened to Ahmaud Arbery.