This is part of the “Confronting the Women’s Incarceration Crisis” series, where we examine what is driving more women into ...

Illinois became the first state to end cash bail in 2021, replacing it with a risk assessment system to determine a person's ...

"The legal system doesn’t have all of the answers to domestic violence, and neither does fiction, but my hope is that this ...

Double rapist James Clacher was convicted last month of raping the mum, known as Elle, in August 2019, and another woman in ...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht are all up for a retention vote in ...

In an interview with CBS News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of the Supreme Court's emergency orders in the Trump cases, ...

Senate again rejects competing funding bills from Democrats and Republicans as the shutdown is set to hit the one-week mark.

The federal government ran out of money after a Democratic-backed spending bill that would have extended health care ...

Closing his homily, Cardinal McElroy said, “As women and men of the law, you participate in the mission of God’s justice that Jesus announces in today’s Gospel. May you take up the challenge to be ...

The Supreme Court's new term features major disputes over presidential power with implications for the economy, American ...

Many coastal communities in Indonesia still struggle to access the substantial financial resources of blue carbon.