Criminal Justice System
A wave of attention is being brought to Cyntoia Brown, who is currently serving a life prison sentence in Tennessee for the murder of Johnny Allen. Allen solicited Brown as a child sex slave when she was just 16 years old back in 2004. When they went back to his place, Brown shot and killed Allen […]
A 30-year-old law against repeat offenders in Louisiana might land one man life in prison.
Due to a programming error, 3,2000 inmates have been released early from prisons in the state of Washington. The programming error was first discovered in 2002 and has yet to be fixed.
In his latest push for criminal justice reform, President Barack Obama on Monday will introduce new efforts to rehabilitate the formerly incarcerated, one of which includes banning the checkbox on employment applications that asks if a potential employee has ever been convicted of a crime.
The discovery of racially coded notes taken by prosecutors during jury selection is forcing the Supreme Court to take a second look at this murder trial, The Washington Post reports.
A New York City man who stole baby formula from a Pathmark supermarket last Thursday was charged with two counts of grand larceny
