Katie Mettler

A new Maryland commission will study the deaths of boys and teens buried between 1870 and 1939 outside a juvenile facility with a documented history of abuse.

The demise of SF Pretrial, which for 50 years has provided diversion services, came after the mayor cut its budget and as Democrats’ attitudes toward crime shift.

Phyllis Hammond knew she needed to act the moment she emerged from her walk through the woods. She climbed into her car, tears streaming, and said a prayer.

The White House is seizing on new statistics showing that violent crime plummeted last year to boast of a “Trump effect.” But experts note crime began falling well before Trump returned to office.

The administration sought to keep the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to abandon its plans to keep the FBI headquarters in D.C., ruling it was improper for the Justice Department to usurp the U.S.

If California’s capital punishment law is found to violate the state constitution, it may provide a template for death penalty opponents in other states.

At least 40 burial sites across the U.S. hold the abandoned graves of children, mostly Black, who died in youth prisons, a new study has found.

At least 40 burial sites across the United States hold more than 1,000 graves of children who died in state custody and were buried by government

At least 40 burial sites across the United States hold more than 1,000 graves of children who died in state custody and were buried by government