After months of declining criminal caseloads in Harris County courts, prosecutors on Tuesday declared victory in clearing out a crippling backlog of felony cases.

Three years ago, the Vatican’s criminal court convicted a cardinal for the first time in history. Now, an appeals court has ...

Most criminal cases in the Texas courts are decided by plea The defendant has a right to face their accuser, even if they're a child In most cases, the victim and their family are alright with the ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

The Trump administration’s “disturbing” new legal strategy to prosecute border crossers is taxing courts and testing the law.

Judge Zahid Quraishi of U.S. District Court ejected a federal prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered the three leaders designated to run the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey to return to court ...

After their prison terms, state-designated sexual predators are placed in the Texas Civil Commitment Center, where many are kept in lockup until they die.

Fair and Just Prosecution condemned the execution of Cedric Allen Ricks by the state of Texas, citing concerns about racial ...

Reporters here and across the nation routinely request public records to illuminate systemic failings, abuse and corruption across all levels of government. They do so under a federal law known as the ...

A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a former Syrian government official, who ​headed the Damascus Central Prison under the government of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, of ‌torture, the U ...

The state's top court refused to let judges raise pay for privately appointed lawyers, leaving the dispute to the legislature as advocates push for a long-term fix.