criminal justice

The Pennsylvania Judicial Center serves as the administrative center for the state court system.

Penn State assistant teaching professor Shaheen Pasha is an advocate for more journalism courses to be taught in prison.She talked with WPSU about a…

Berks County narcotics detectives were ready to pounce.From a distance, they spied Jose Veloz and Ambioris Cruz sitting in a 2005 Nissan Murano on a leafy…

Bryan Stevenson is a renowned lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization that “is committed to ending mass…

Across the political spectrum, there is growing recognition of the criminal justice system’s failures. But despite some important reforms in recent years,…

Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections has agreed to treat the state’s nearly 5,000 inmates with hepatitis C over the next three years as part of a…

Witness to Innocence, a national anti-death penalty organization based in Philadelphia, staged an event in the city Thursday calling for Pennsylvania to…

It was an early autumn afternoon in 1975 — a moment that Steve Austin wishes he could take back.Recalling that day recently, Austin took a deep breath, as…

Crystal Weimer’s nightmare began in 2004, when she was arrested for a crime she didn’t commit.“When you go to jail, your whole family goes to jail,”…

This interview originally aired on Feb. 9, 2018. Since then, the book won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and…