A tearful defense lawyer who doesn’t want her client to pay for her mistakes convinced a federal judge in Indiana to give her client more time before sentencing.
Following a troubling report last year about Ohio’s youth prison, the state has promised to direct $30 million in additional funding and hire 100 more guards to improve the system.
A North Carolina death-row inmate was freed from prison yesterday after a judge determined investigators mishandled his case and prosecutors decided against a retrial.
Local jail populations are exploding and have become the “new asylums,” with six of 10 inmates suffering from mental illness, according to a new report released today by the Justice…
Instead of waiting to see area high school students show up on the wrong side of his courtroom, New Mexico Magistrate Danny Hawkes has decided to take his courtroom on…
Bolstered by support from the legislature, prosecutors in Georgia are mounting a full assault against the state’s system of judicial review panels that, in some cases, reduced prison terms.
A federal appeals court has ordered that former Alabama Gov. Donald Siegelman be released on bond. He has already served nine months in prison since he was convicted of bribery.
After pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge and serving a prison term of more than three years for a punch that allegedly caused a neighbor’s death, a Connecticut man is…
A majority of the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appear to support the idea that judges can bar mentally ill defendants from representing themselves, even if they are deemed…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in his professional life yesterday, restoring a tradition that the Justice Department’s top lawyer participate in…
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