Justice

Border Patrol agents, untrained in child welfare, decide that some parents are unfit to stay with their children based on brief interactions in detention.

In a “buy-a-badge scheme,” Energy Transfer and the security firm TigerSwan allegedly paid elected constables to guard the Mariner East 2 pipeline.

What happened to the guy who told his Muslim employees in 2015 that he would “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment”?

Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s Ending PUSHOUT Act would create incentives to end school discipline policies that disproportionately punish girls of color.

Sixteen-year-old Damain Martin drowned in a canal near Sunrise, Florida, while running from police. A new investigation suggests he may have been tased.

Most people who have been sentenced to death in the U.S. are no longer on death row, and they haven’t been executed. Where did they go?

Prosecutors wield enormous discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system — unless they decide that capital punishment is unjust.

Abolition of the death penalty has increasingly become a bipartisan issue, with fiscal conservatives joining reformers focused on wrongful convictions.

The Supreme Court restarted the death penalty in 1976 after ruling it unconstitutional. Our numbers show that race remains an overwhelming factor.

Some 10,000 Cameroonians have tried to ask for asylum in the U.S. since 2016, many of them escaping brutal treatment by an elite Cameroonian military unit.