Less than half of victims surveyed by a watchdog were confident they could get justice by reporting a crime or that the ...

A K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department in the Times Square subway station in 2023. A K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department in the Times Square subway station in ...

Recent court rulings construing the United States Constitution focus on legal rights afforded the criminally accused. The ...

They’ve struggled with addiction. They’ve struggled with abuse and trauma. They’ve struggled with mental health issues. And those struggles have led to time behind bars. This month the nonprofit ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...

County parole and probation services and the restorative justice program could be merged into one department, if approved by ...

Aurora Police officers called it a “chaotic scene” — one victim jumped from a fourth-floor window to escape a fusillade of bullets, breaking both his legs; another man was found a block away with a ...

President Donald Trump is bending the U.S. justice system to his personal purposes in a way that is unprecedented in American history, prompting significant questions about how a system built on ...

The criminal justice system knew Decarlos Brown long before he was accused of fatally stabbing Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, in an unprovoked attack on a Charlotte, North Carolina, train in ...

It was inevitable that there would still be more questions than answers following the verdict this week in the case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman acquitted of murder and manslaughter in ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and defended employers who take action against their workers whose comments go too far, at the ...

Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically ...