Policing

Pennsylvania sentences more people to life in prison without the possibility of parole than any other state.

Life without parole applies automatically to first- and second-degree murder, and sometimes to third-degree murder.

Three of the poorest ZIP codes in the city are responsible for almost a third of the city’s homicides since January 2013.

All books will now have to go through the Department of Corrections.

State AG says it can help law enforcement get there before the next fatal overdose and help get drug users into treatment.

The officer is charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose.

County officials launch camera registry to aid in police investigations.

Grewal said when law enforcement officers and citizens know their encounters are being recorded, they behave better.

“This program here will give those kids an opportunity to do the right thing.”

A former Philadelphia Police officer is now facing first degree murder charges for fatally shooting a suspect who fled from a traffic sto ...

A former Philadelphia police officer has been indicted in the deadly shooting a 30-year-old Germantown man in the back last year.

Colin Kaepernick has a new deal with Nike, even without having a job in the NFL.

Pressure from protesters calling for an end of ICE and meetings with activists helped convince Mayor Jim Kenney to end the arrangement.

When a facility goes into lockdown, it usually means the few freedoms inmates have go away.

Supporters hope Mumia Abu-Jamal will get a new trial in the murder of Philadelphia police Officer Daniel Faulkner due to what they say is a prosecutorial conflict of interest