Criminal Justice

This controversial legal mechanism allows police departments and district attorney offices to profit from property seized during arrests, even if a suspect is never convicted

Dr. Kermit Gosnell is spending life in prison for killing babies during botched or illegal abortions. What should be done with his former West Philly clinic?

Now recovering from multiple bullet wounds, Darrin Lee faces charges of aggravated assault and making terroristic threats.

More than 5,000 people are serving life in prison in Pennsylvania. Now there are efforts to help some of them get a chance at parole.

Under the bill, people convicted of first-degree murder — intentionally killing another person — would be eligible for parole after serving 35 years.

Sniff and search is no longer the default for police in some of the 33 states that have legalized marijuana.

Pennsylvania’s high court will consider whether it’s unconstitutional to sentence certain juveniles to 50 years behind bars.

The Pa. Supreme Court will consider whether the state's death penalty statute amounts to cruel, arbitrary punishment that's too often reserved for black and poor defendants.

The use of civil asset forfeiture increased slightly in Philadelphia last year, despite the election of District Attorney Larry Krasner, a critic of the practice.

The first public hearing about the social media database this week was nearly eclipsed by all the other Philly police scandals this summer.

As a formerly incarcerated individual, I am determined to write the narrative instead of letting someone else write it about me.

With no clear guidance from the courts on how that information should be shared, critics have chided prosecutors for failing to keep track of problem officers.

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to a jail term for trafficking protected turtles.

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill has been battling with the city’s criminal justice system for 12 years after he was arrested on gun and drug charges when he was 19.

The police lab can’t afford overtime anymore, per a memo from the DA’s office. It may cause the city to prosecute fewer low-level drug possession cases.