Policing

The commonwealth has 156 prisoners on death row and according to filings, 80 percent of them have been there more than a decade.

Philadelphia Orchestra musician in residence visits inmates to hear about their lives, experience their surroundings.

Now that US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has approved Pennsylvania’s 13-year education-improvement plan, state officials are working on rolling out some changes.

Safe Stop aims to inform the public about traffic stop protocols, but a South Jersey social justice activist believes police should be held more accountable than motorists.

Kristal Bush started her service, Bridging the Gap, in 2012. As a child, she went years without seeing her dad. Her mom didn’t have a car that could make it from Philly.

Authorities hunting for suspects in a gunpoint rape in a Norristown park have hit a dead end, so they're turning to a new technology to help jumpstart their investigation.

Law enforcement did not fire any shots.

The program looks beyond law enforcement to prevent opioid distribution.

Eric Riddicks' mother says he wasn't the killer in a 1991 homicide. She delivered the paperwork she says proves his innocence to new top prosecutor, Larry Krasner.

The New Jersey Department of Corrections has lifted a ban on the book “The New Jim Crow” at two of its prisons, following a complaint from the state chapter of the ACLU.

Three-quarters of Philly's prison inmates have a history of substance addiction. Is the system equipped to help them?

Report says Pennsylvania State Police standards for internal investigations of trooper-involved shootings are inconsistent and cause public distrust.

One of the state’s most crime-ridden communities recorded a double-digit drop in murders in 2017.

Cops stopped a driver whose car was wanted in connection with an unsolved murder. But the driver wasn't the murder suspect and was unarmed when a plainclothes cop shot him.

Pioneered in Boston in the 1990s, focused deterrence identifies people — often gang members or those involved in the drug trade — most likely to commit violent crimes.