Criminal Justice

The change, which will involve new furniture and roomier cells, will test whether a less punitive prison environment will yield better-behaved inmates.

The group’s Pennsylvania chapter is suing the county in hopes it will allow people on probation to use medical cannabis.

Willie Veasy's long-running appeal came to an end Wednesday morning, when a judge tossed out the murder conviction.

For the first time, N.J.’s high court is hearing a challenge to the scientific merits of the methodology cops use to spot and charge drivers under the influence of drugs.

District Attorney Larry Krasner on Friday filed a motion to drop murder charges against the black bicycle courier accused of fatally stabbing a Center City developer.

The wife of a slain Philadelphia police officer wants the district attorney removed from a possible retrial of her husband's killer, Mumia Abu Jamal.

The lawsuit alleges Darius Sarro was raped and bullied by other inmates on multiple occasions over a two-year period, while housed at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.

DA Krasner’s new online dashboard updates daily, from arrests to sentences.

The amendment would enshrine certain rights for crime victims in the commonwealth’s constitution.

The magnitude of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation was brought to light by Miami Herald reporter JULIE K. BROWN who got to the bottom of this explosive story.

This week: Are Pennsylvania police dropping the ball tracking racial profiling? Lt. Gov. John Fetterman discuses recreational marijuana in Pa.. Then, fall gardening cleanup.

The Times Up fund, administered by the National Women's Law Center, has received more than 3,670 requests for assistance and has funded 160 cases via $24 million donations.

The Pa. Supreme Court has declined a special petition to review the constitutionality of the death penalty but says it will still consider the fairness of individual cases.

For three days this week, they’re protesting that last year only 44% of Philadelphia homicides were solved.

A defendant convicted in a drug dealing case will receive a new trial in part because of a comment made on Facebook by a Philadelphia police officer who testified against him.