The family of an 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after he called 911 and asked for their help have launched a $5 million federal lawsuit against the city of Indianola,... Read more »
A commodities trader in Stamford, Connecticut, Freepoint Commodities LLC, has agreed to pay the federal government over $98 million to resolve a DOJ investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act... Read more »
A report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that, as of midyear 2022, while at least 30 percent (or 197,000 people) of the jail population was convicted, at least... Read more »
Legislation signed by Governor Josh Shapiro will limit the circumstances under which a non-violent offender on probation can be sent back to jail and limit the length of probation, the Associated Press... Read more »
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether federal prosecutors can charge January 6 riot defendants with a statute that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding of Congress, a... Read more »
Federal prosecutors say they plan to retry former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison for violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor and four others during the March 2020 police raid that... Read more »
A Decade After Their Implementation, Are Police Body Cams Delivering Transparency or Accountability?
Police have undermined the promise of transparency and accountability that accompanied the body-camera movement that began a decade ago, reports Eric Umansky for the New York Times. Costing hundreds of millions of... Read more »
Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist has signed bipartisan legislation in Detroit to address Michigan’s juvenile justice system and invest in diversion and re-entry services designed to better position Michigan youth for success... Read more »
The White House is hosting nearly 100 lawmakers from 39 states on Wednesday to work on how their states can try to reduce gun violence following the creation of its gun violence... Read more »
A temporary program in Idaho that houses “dangerously mentally ill” patients, who often face no criminal charges, in prisons has continued for five decades, Audrey Dutton reports for ProPublica. Idaho has continued... Read more »