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Pennsylvania voters chose Republican and Democrat nominees for U.S Senate, 18 seats in the U.S. House, governor and lieutenant governor, plus half the…
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Bill Cosby will be sentenced Sept. 24, almost five months to the day after he was convicted of sexual assault, a judge said Tuesday.Lawyers for the…
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A Pennsylvania prison guard who confiscated a towel blocking a view of an inmate's bunk and was attacked died of his injuries Monday, the first state…
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Seven prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing inmates in what the Pennsylvania attorney general said Thursday was an effort to stop a…
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Pennsylvania is being sued by five inmates for a blanket policy that keeps all death row prisoners in solitary confinement.The American Civil Liberties…
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Attorney-client privilege was designed to protect open communication between an attorney and his or her client. What the accused says is confidential, but…
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Issues such as police use of force and mass incarceration have long fueled calls for criminal justice reform. But some have proposed going a step further…
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a 2013 memo last month written by his predecessor, Eric Holder. Sessions told prosecutors that not only will they…
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The exposure of wrongful convictions began in 1989, and it upended the idea that guilty verdicts were always trustworthy. When there’s a wrongful…
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When someone is incarcerated, they family members – especially children – can be forgotten, but Elizabeth Mansley works hard to remember them. Last year,…