Criminal Justice

It’s not the first time the feds have come out against the city prosecutor.

A day after the bloodshed, there are growing suspicions it was an anti-Semitic attack.

After months of negotiation, the state House has moved a package of criminal justice reform bills through committee.

Wardens say it teaches financial responsibility, inmates and prison researchers say it’s too burdensome.

A bill that would reform probation in Pennsylvania passed a House committee Monday – but only after it was scaled back extensively.

A man is now free despite decades-old shoplifting charges that threatened to keep him in prison even after he received a rare commutation.

After 25 years in prison, David Sheppard received clemency for a second-degree murder charge. But he may have to go back to prison for allegedly stealing jeans in 1992.

A Monmouth County man was convicted Thursday of animal cruelty for leaving a caged dog in a New Jersey bay, prosecutors announced. 

Christiana Care’s review found that the system is “siloed” into departments that limit coordination and accountability, and plagued by staff turnover.

Two former high-ranking officials with a New Jersey youth baseball league who played in the Little League World Series two years ago have admitted stealing league funds.

Victims who were previously barred from suing because they didn’t act during the allotted time period now have a two-year window to file claims.

Attorneys at the Defender Association of Philadelphia say unionization will help them better serve clients in criminal court.

Eleven people were shot in New Orleans' French Quarter early Sunday morning, according to police.

Members of a Pa. Supreme Court-appointed task force say grand jury reports raise “considerable due process concerns.”

At a speech to the commonwealth’s Press Club, John Fetterman brought special guests: two recently commuted people who were sentenced to life without parole.