Law

Gov. Chris Christie wants to transfer responsibility for New Jersey’s four state psychiatric hospitals, community-based mental health a ...

What can Philadelphia learn from New York’s automated speed enforcement camera program? Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia ...

The 2018 fiscal year begins Saturday, July 1, for most states, which means budgets must be set by midnight. But Pennsylvania, New Jersey, ...

When voters cast ballots for state representatives last fall, millions of Americans essentially had no choice: In 42 percent of all such ...

In November, Pennsylvania lawmakers passed Act 5 that allows people to have some misdemeanor convictions sealed if a judge approves. But ...

The word police just got put on notice: Your power to arrest, detain, and shame people who don’t share your view of “offens ...

I know not whether laws be right,Or whether laws be wrong,All that we know who lie in jail,Is th ...

Free speech is easy to support when you like what’s being said, but that’s not how the First Amendment works. This is somethi ...

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the personal immigration stories of individuals who are living in the Philadelphia region without legal status.

We’ve come to the time in the district attorney race when the appeals to fear come to the fore. Candidates claim they will be ̶ ...

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the personal immigration stories of individuals who are living in the Philadelphia region without legal status.

On May 16, Philadelphians will effectively elect a new district attorney, and the candidates have different positions on an important iss ...

Although the district attorney race in Philadelphia is celebrated ...

Seth Williams, the first African American district attorney in Philadelphia, is down and soon to be out. He provides a cautiona ...

With the Philadelphia district attorney’s race heating up, many candidates are promising to make significant reforms to the o ...