One year ago this month, a Springfield District Court judge saw a man he had recently sentenced to a year in the House of Correction stand in front of him in handcuffs because he had allegedly been ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Years ago, a copy editor working on a reporter’s story changed some of the “whiches” to “thats” when they were being ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The legal justice system here in South Carolina and across the United States exists to lock up criminals and release them after they're done serving their sentence. But there are ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. When a 2016 ...

Update Oct. 21, 2020: Purdue Pharma, the maker of prescription painkiller OxyContin, will plead guilty to federal criminal charges and pay a settlement of more than $8 billion, according to the ...

Diddy will be sentenced on Friday. How much prison time will he get? Here's what legal experts say you need to know. By Bill Donahue Just over a year after he was first arrested, Sean “Diddy” Combs ...