OTTAWA - Ministers responsible for justice and public safety at the federal, provincial and territorial levels wrapped up two days of discussions Friday on bail reform and the role of victims in the ...

Tonight’s "Dateline" season 34 episode unpacks the 2014 Daniel Markel case. Find out how to watch for free today with new ...

FOR nearly two years, Germany’s Palestine solidarity movement has been subjected to intense repression. Above all, the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A stoic former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of lying to Congress five years ago, as the Justice Department kicked off its first-ever ...

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He fell to his death after a confrontation with Pete Doherty, yet police dismissed it as suicide or an accident. Now Marco ...

The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys ...

But it misses a much bigger public safety issue — one that both sides should agree is a problem: how rarely serious offenders are caught in the first place. Policymakers typically look to harsher ...

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Robe Imbriano’s documentary short uses music and animation to illustrate the grave injustices taking place at Houston’s notorious jail and in the cash-bail system at large. is that it looks very ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) on Friday signed into law new criminal justice legislation in honor of Iryna Zarutska, 23, who was killed while in transit on the Charlotte light rail in August.