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Criminal Justice

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and other investigators announce charges against Philadelphia towing company Hooked Inc. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Prosecutors: Philly tow-truck operators bilked auto insurance companies

Prosecutors say Hooked, Inc. circumvented the city’s towing system so it could pocket thousands by overbilling car insurance companies. It preyed on drivers who were confused.

7 years ago

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez proposed legislation that would place sanctions on China and Chinese entities who support and supply fentanyl trafficking in the U.S. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Menendez, Toomey back bill to stop the flow of deadly fentanyl from China

The bill would place sanctions on Chinese drug manufacturers that knowingly supply fentanyl to traffickers.

7 years ago

Pa. Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Formerly incarcerated legislative aide hired to lead Pennsylvania pardons board’s office

A former legislative aide who did prison time for drug and weapons offenses has taken over as secretary of the Pa. Board of Pardons to streamline the clemency process.

7 years ago

Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna, Del. (Suchat Pederson/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP, File)
Courts & Law

In rare verdict, jury awards Delaware prisoner $65K

Jurors found Corporal Eben Boyce committed assault and battery and violated prisoner Jake Fox's constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment.

7 years ago

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Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection facilityyt, provides people with clean injection supplies. Photo by Elana Gordon, WHYY
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Is Philly’s supervised injection site legal? Backers make ‘moral and religious’ defense

Among their arguments: shutting down the proposed injection sites would violate the group’s Judeo-Christian convictions.

7 years ago

Recording artist Meek Mill speaks at a gathering to push for drastic changes to Pennsylvania's probation system, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. House Democratic Whip Jordan Harris on Tuesday announced he will soon introduce a bill designed to result in fewer people on parole and for shorter periods of time. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Meek Mill continues push for overhauling Pa. probation, parole systems

Appearing in Philadelphia accompanied by Pennsylvania state politicians, rapper Meek Mill again calls for changes to the state's system of probation and parole.

7 years ago

A sign is seen outside a bail bondsman across the street from Mercer County criminal courthouse Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in Trenton, N.J.
Courts & Law

N.J. officials finally release data on bail reform. Their conclusion? It’s working

N.J. officials release data showing bail reform cut jail populations without a spike in recidivism. But they note it didn’t reduce racial disparities.

7 years ago

President Trump at the signing ceremony for the First Step Act in December. While some prisoners are benefiting from reduced sentences, implementation of other aspects of the law has been hit with delays.
(Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

3 months into new criminal justice law, success for some and snafus for others

While some prisoners are benefiting from reduced sentences under the First Step Act, implementation of other aspects of the law has been hit with delays.

7 years ago

A group of two dozen activists briefly block traffic during a rally outside the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office in December, 2018. The group called on DA Larry Krasner to not challenge a Common Pleas court ruling that allows Mumia Abu-Jamal to file an appeal. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

Judge in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case blasts Krasner for trying to block latest appeal

Pennsylvania Supreme Court is weighing whether to take convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new appeal and potentially grant him a new trial.

7 years ago

Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pa. House positions overhauled statute of limitations bills for another run

Revived Pa. effort to extend statute of limitations in future cases of sex abuse follows a bitter dispute over whether to allow retroactive lawsuits in certain cases.

7 years ago

The Supreme Court ruled in what seem to be contradictory ways in two cases about access to spiritual advisers during executions. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court sees 2 similar death penalty questions very differently

In one, a Muslim was put to death, and in the other, a Buddhist's execution was temporarily halted.

7 years ago

Marc Davis, associate pastor of the New Life Presbyterian Church looks over arrangements inside the sanctuary before a memorial service for Grace Packer, the local teen who authorities say was killed and dismembered by her adoptive mother and her boyfriend, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, in Glenside, Pa. (Ed Hille/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Courts & Law

Man gets death for teen’s rape, murder, dismemberment

Jacob Sullivan, 46, had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and related charges for killing Grace Packer in 2016.

7 years ago

The entrance of a correctional facility.
Courts & Law

Bill would keep Delaware juvenile offenders out of ‘horrible’ conditions in adult prisons

Delaware has long housed violent youth offenders in adult prisons. Citing “unconscionable’’ conditions, advocates say that must end.

7 years ago

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In this Oct. 4, 2017, photo, a device called a
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. gun owner among many nationwide fighting to overturn Trump-led ban on bump stocks

Federal officials are asking gun owners to immediately destroy or turn over bump stocks after a nationwide ban took effect this week.

7 years ago

Albert Woodfox served more than 40 years in solitary confinement in Angola Prison in Louisiana. (photo credit, Peter Puna)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Ending solitary confinement

We talk about solitary confinement in American prisons with Albert Woodfox, who served more then 40 years in isolation in Angola Prison, and Amy Fettig, of the ACLU.

Air Date: March 27, 2019 10:00 am

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