Two former Louisville police officers were facing civil rights charges in connection with the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

In her high school law class, she’s studied verdicts that have left her with big questions about the justice system—like how ...

Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

Some of the nation's leading defense lawyers have been trying to wrap their heads around what they consider abnormal behavior by the U.S. Department of Justice over the past year. Now, they're ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. These intensified ...

A decade ago, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to eliminate cash bail. The ballot question was simple, but what we voted on was complicated. Whether you knew it ...

This week a Washington Post puff piece leaped to the defense of the progressive district attorneys propelled into office by the campaign cash of billionaire George Soros, portraying these prosecutors ...

WINTERVILLE — Pitt Community College received special recognition this week from East Carolina University (ECU) for its longstanding partnership in preparing future law enforcement and criminal ...

New research has found that courts, prisons, police and probation services are failing to keep up with growing pressure and demand. The annual assessment has been produced by thinktank the Institute ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks ...

The House passed legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how youth who commit crimes are prosecuted in the District of Columbia as congressional Republicans mobilized behind President Donald Trump's ...

Alexander Rodnyansky, the celebrated producer of Zvyagintsev, Balagov and more, returns to his nonfiction roots with a sober, strikingly personal doc overlaying family history and national struggle.