Criminal Justice

After being found guilty in his hush money case, the former president made unfounded claims of a “rigged” trial, which analysts say could undermine international relations.

“You have to really think about why this happened for as long as it did,” said the attorney representing the plaintiffs, “and how it was so prevalent.”

Some attacks were reported to other staffers and were ignored or met with disbelief.

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."

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.

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.

Margera was cited for public intoxication and disorderly conduct after a dispute at the Radnor Hotel last August.

After spending more than a decade in prison, C.J. Rice told CNN’s Jake Tapper the “air tastes sweeter” as a free man.