Criminal Justice

More than 100 children are being held in a Philadelphia juvenile detention center while the COVID-19 pandemic spreads through the city.

Federal law requires that prisoners receive the same standard of care as those on the outside, including for oral health needs.

Officers can make exceptions if they think someone would “pose a threat” to public safety.

For the first time ever, Pennsylvania residents will be able to video chat with loved ones who are serving state prison sentences.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has called for a big reduction in arrests over low-level, non-violent crimes, citing concerns about the spread of COVID-19.

Pennsylvania county jails and courts vary in their responses to the coronavirus outbreak.

A member of the Philadelphia Police Department's SWAT team is dead after a shootout early Friday in the Frankford-Torresdale section of the city.

Chief Inspector Carl Holmes was arrested in October after an investigating grand jury recommended criminal charges against the veteran officer.

His 20-year sentence for a criminal sexual act, the more serious of the two counts he was convicted of last month, is on the higher end of New York state's guidelines.

A man has been charged in the death of a former New Jersey high school football star shot following a fistfight on a Philadelphia street a week ago.

Authorities are questioning a man in what they are calling an accidental shooting that wounded a 4-year-old boy in north Philadelphia.

A senior judge will review whether the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office should step down from the latest appeal of former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

People in Pa. prisons are counted as residents of where they're incarcerated instead of where they lived, leading to shifts in political power. Can a new lawsuit change that?

Authorities say a man shot and wounded by police during a standoff near Philadelphia last month has died.

A man has been convicted of third-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Nicki Minaj crew member outside a Philadelphia bar five years ago.