Maura Ewing

Imprisoned for decades for a crime he committed as a juvenile, “Red Dog” Fennell was released as an old man into a baffling world.

Activists have swept a new wave of prosecutors into office. Is the focus now shifting to the judiciary?

“The consensus that we would do this, that we would all do it, gives us cover that we wouldn’t be labeled as liberal or too soft on defendants.”

A Massachusetts case illustrates the glaring difference between the medical community’s approach to addiction and the laws on the books in the United States.

A Q&A with Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who insists his 40-year-old squad is still relevant in a safer-than-ever city

Larry Krasner is a longtime defense attorney with zero prosecutorial experience who made his career suing law enforcement.

Since last year, a detention center in Philadelphia has had one of the strictest visitation policies in the country. “Now it’s a different world in there,” one local lawyer said.

The next district attorney of Philadelphia plans to condone safe-injection sites, where people can use the drug under medical supervision.

Despite the Sixth Amendment, in many jurisdictions, defendants don’t get legal representation the first time they go to court.

A Q&A with Georgetown University professor Marc Morjé Howard on parole boards’ incentive to keep inmates in jail