Written following his return from 10 years in Siberian exile, Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” follows the story of Rodion Raskolnikov as he grapples with mental anguish after killing a pawnbroker.

In 1996, I was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. I was devastated, and most people might believe the ordeal left me full ...

NEW ORLEANS — October is Youth Justice Action Month, a month where advocates try to educate people about rehabilitation for kids who have been impacted by the criminal justice system. For the past ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Perry Moriearty of the University of Minnesota Law School says that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs marks an important step toward ...

I read through Deputy Hennepin County Attorney Mark Osler's defense of Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty ("Moriarty's vision, not critics' fears, has been fulfilled," Opinion Exchange, Oct. 25).

TODAY’S column, a reprint from 2021, is in memory of former Commissioner of Police Paul Farquharson, who died last week. He served as a police officer for most of his professional life, eventually ...

Barbara Rhode and Melissa Greene in the WMNF studios. Barbara Rhode, founder of the Red Tent Women’s Initiative in St. Petersburg, talks about the non-profit’s trauma-centered program that gives women ...

The pendulum has swung during many decades. On the one extreme, a prevalent view in the 1960s and into the 1970s was that almost any offender could be redeemed through participation in a variety of ...

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