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 1960s were turbulent. The nation was in the midst of two wars. First, the Cold War with the Soviet Union and later the Vietnam War. Former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...

The American judicial system’s evolution reflects society’s changing values and understanding of fundamental rights. Each era brings new challenges and interpretations that shape the foundation of law ...

In 1987, Ben Spencer, a young black man from Dallas, Texas was convicted in the killing of a white businessman. He was sentenced to life in prison by an all-white jury. There was no physical evidence ...

The age of politicized prosecutions is upon us. No longer such a thing as guilty or not guilty based on the law and the facts. The federal prosecutions of Donald Trump over Jan. 6 and the Mar-a-Lago ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who violently stormed the Capitol four ...

Influenced by economic, social and environmental factors, criminal behaviour is a complex phenomenon. Academics across disciplines as varied as sociology, geography, mathematics and psychology work to ...

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 ...

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. BRITTANY. WELL, THAT’S RIGHT. AND THIS IS AT LEAST THE THIRD TIME THAT A WORK STOPPAGE IN THE PAST TWO DECADES HAS UPENDED THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL SYSTEM. AND ONE FORMER ...