Criminal Justice

Who will sit on it, how they will be selected, what its budget will be, its duties and powers — all of that will be finalized in the coming weeks.

Leo Dignam, a former city assistant managing director, is one of three people charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Pa. faces a new dynamic if and when it considers whether to pursue its own recreational marijuana legalization measure.

After years of back and forth, New Jersey voted to legalize recreational marijuana. So why do some cannabis activists say it isn’t enough?

A federal judge has ordered the pretrial release to Anthony Smith, a Philadelphia social studies teacher and organizer with Philly for REAL Justice.

We need justice system leaders to more carefully consider who they’re bringing into the system, and why, writes the chief public defender for Philadelphia.

ACLU says its clients behind Fort Dix’s bars report substandard medical care.

Voters in 2020 push for drug reform. Several states approve marijuana for recreational use. Oregon votes to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs.

“Rendering Justice,” at the African American Museum of Philadelphia, features artists making work about reentering society.

Delaware is far behind its neighbors in how many wrongfully convicted people get exonerated. It’s a discrepancy targeted by the state’s newly formed Innocence Project.

We discuss mental health and policing around the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia. Then, the dark money influencing the 2020 election.

The violence happened after police shot and killed Walter Wallace, who was reportedly armed with a knife.

State legislators have passed a bill expanding the law that automatically seals certain criminal records to residents who can’t afford to pay their court debt.

Philadelphia is again suing the state so it can enact its own gun laws, using a new legal strategy called "state-created danger" the city thinks could help them win this time.

The court has ordered the dismissal of up to 1,400 failure-to-appear warrants that are over five years old for nonviolent minor offenses that were issued against juveniles.