Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

Texas faces an alarming trend of domestic violence, with over 200 fatalities in 2023. Advocates push for stronger laws to protect survivors.

Successful petitions to receive compassionate early release from federal prisons due to health issues are rare. They are even ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

Adams is the first sitting New York City mayor to be indicted. Mayor Eric Adams's criminal defense attorney was at Justice Department headquarters in Washington on Friday to discuss the future of ...

As chief counsel, he oversaw legal matters related to criminal ... Department of Justice in 2008 and formerly served as U.S. Attorney and First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of ...

Imagine working at the Justice Department ... get fired — or look away and keep your job. Either way, the case goes nowhere. Indeed, it seems we can write off the possibility of any meaningful ...

He was subsequently sentenced to five years of confinement in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison. In 2011, Alonzo was convicted of failure to register as a sex offender and subsequently ...

Hours into the hearing we are ... witness in the criminal case, and whether he lied or tried to obstruct that investigation. Senator Kennedy is claiming that the Biden Justice Department decided ...

has special statewide jurisdiction in civil cases and justice pay varies slightly, up to $205,380. Justices and judges on the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest ...