Steve Howe, 72, was arrested by FBI agents in Windsor on July 2 and released on a $10,000 bond. He faces 20 counts of bank ...

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff The “nerdy” changes within Penobscot County’s criminal justice system are what District Defender Logan Perkins is most proud of during her first year on the ...

With the state so reliant on private attorneys, the stoppage has effectively crippled the courts’ ability to assign lawyers ...

Era Patterson is appointed to lead Chicago's Office of Public Safety Administration by Mayor Brandon Johnson, bringing ...

About 100 ICE agents detained people at a Kings Mountain fire extinguisher plant, according a sealed warrant briefly detailed in court.

California is one of only two states that places the entire financial burden on counties to fund trial-level public defense and then provides no road map for how counties should d ...

Funds to pay contracted attorneys dried up July 3, according to the Federal Public Defender's Office in North Dakota and South Dakota. That could result in delays for justice and harm to defendants.

Court documents show Jospeh Cole Whitten was arrested in connection to the fire and charged with third-degree arson, third-degree burglary, and second-degree theft of property.

An additional arrest has been made in connection with a deadly mass shooting that occurred after a St. Patrick’s Day Parade ...

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and investigators stretched paper-thin. The Cook County Jail has swelled under ...

Sitting Black women lawmakers, who are also attorneys, take center stage in the newest legal battle with the Governor.

Transfers for the sheriff’s department and additional appropriations for the new public defender’s office should get some ...