The lawyers who represent the city’s poorest defendants want to be paid on par with their federal counterparts. They last ...

A Frederick Police Department officer charged with soliciting a minor was suspended with pay until charges were filed against ...

More than half the people ICE has detained under President Trump have no criminal conviction, while roughly 8% were convicted ...

Supreme Judicial Court Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt is weighing whether to invoke protocol that could lead to the release of criminal defendants who have no lawyers amid a work stoppage.

Law enforcement officials in Essex County alert the public about a bail scam targeting the families of those who have been ...

Los Angeles County has agreed to pay nearly $2.7 million to settle a claim brought by a teenager who was attacked by other youths at the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.

For 43 years, attorney bank accounts have raised millions of dollars used to help North Carolina families hold onto their ...

Criminal Justice First pay raise for Texas judges in over a decade heads to governor’s desk after pension dispute. The base salary for state judges hasn’t changed or adjusted for inflation ...

Criminal records, especially including violent or sex offenses, were identified as a barrier for low-income housing, vouchers or market rentals. A lack of good credit, rental history and references is ...

The Oklahoma County Detention Center could run out of money at the end of the month, including the funds that maintain the ...

Trump loses bid to toss verdict in E. Jean Carroll case 00:37. The Department of Justice wants to stand in for President Trump in his ongoing appeal of a defamation case that could cost him tens ...

How Families Pay the Never-Ending Price of a Criminal Record Nearly half of all American children have a parent with a criminal record, creating barriers to jobs, housing, ...