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Records show Kim Ogg’s office appeared to misrepresent felony prosecutor caseloads in its $21 million budget request.

Advocates and attorneys say Jackie Lacey’s rhetoric doesn’t match her actions.

Prosecutors are supremely powerful and have played an outsize role in mass incarceration. What can be done?

Carlton Roman has been stuck in prison for nearly 30 years for a murder he has long denied. Now, with a crowded primary for Queens district attorney weeks away, he could finally get a chance to go free.

Critics say that Arlington County Commonwealth Attorney Theo Stamos, who is being challenged in a June primary, has a pattern of treating children too harshly.

An autopsy blamed the sleeping situation, but forensic experts aren’t so sure. And the same Ohio county just charged another mom in a similar case.

DA Leon Cannizzarro used jailhouse informant Ronnie Morgan to convict a man in the killing of five teenagers, but the case was overturned. Now, Morgan is petitioning for a prison transfer, reviving the murder case.

U.S. attorneys in D.C. have opposed the resentencing of all 14 people who have petitioned for early release under a local law.

The ACLU of Arizona is suing Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s office over its alleged lack of transparency.

Imprisoned as a teen, Amer Zada is now eligible for release but can’t find approved housing—and a proposed law could make the problem worse.

California’s expansive registry law forces people to pay for crimes they didn’t personally commit.

‘The bill forces attorneys to choose between violating our ethical mandates or going to jail for following them.’

The Orleans district attorney has said that violent youth are the city’s biggest crime problem.

Tina Rodriguez was sent to prison in Texas for allegedly starving her son to death. But recent discoveries about the medical examiner who conducted the baby’s autopsy raise questions about her case.

In recent years, the number of people federally charged with smuggling and harboring has jumped nearly a third.

A new documentary explores the ‘Bronx 120’ raid, and what it says about the evolution of policing in New York City.

Advocates say laws that land people with HIV on the sex offender registry are outdated and dangerous.

Former prosecutor and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro inspires Trump’s rhetoric of dehumanization and incarceration.

In 2018, Brittany Smith killed a man who she said brutally raped her. Smith was charged with murder and she now faces life in prison as well as challenges getting adequate treatment at a state psychiatric hospital.

As the borough’s district attorney race takes shape, advocates press for changes to the office’s approach to people who reoffend.

In 2000, Lamar Burks was convicted of murder and given a 70-year sentence. But the federal indictment of a DEA agent and witnesses who say Burks is innocent have raised new questions about his case.

Vindication and compensation remain elusive for Tennessee’s wrongly convicted, in part because of the state’s parole board.

Senate Bill 1437 virtually eliminated the ‘felony-murder rule,’ but district attorneys aren’t ready to let it go.

Activists suspect the investigation was tainted by the close relationship between the police and prosecutors.

State bar organizations have the power to discipline prosecutors, but they studiously ignore bad behavior.

Washington detains more children for status offenses such as truancy and running away than any other state in the country. State lawmakers want to change that.

Darcel Clark’s approach to overdose deaths continue the criminalization of drug users and put her on the wrong side of history, advocates say.

A 22-year-old woman overdosed and died in jail. A 24-year-old faces first-degree murder charges. Did the system fail them both?

Audia Jones pledges to tackle ‘brokenness in the system’ by unseating Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.

Opponents of the law say it unfairly targets people who need knives for work, and are battling it on multiple fronts.

Critics say the state’s policy of keeping non-residents registered bloats the list—and harms public safety.

Tammy Scheurich, who lost three biological children in the Hart family crash last year, tells her story for the first time.

In 1996, Michele Benjamin was sentenced to life without parole for killing a man who she said solicited her for sex and menaced her with a weapon in New Orleans. A Supreme Court decision led her to be re-sentenced to life with a chance at parole in 2016. Today, a parole hearing brings the possibility of freedom.

‘How are we making sure that we’re not just building and building a system that we know is not necessarily effective?’

Boston’s top prosecutor says big changes are in the works; advocates plan to keep pushing.

A Florida woman with substance use disorder allegedly brokered a drug sale that ended in a fatal overdose; she faces 15 years in prison.

California amended its felony murder law, which holds accomplices responsible for murder. But reform won’t reach a man sentenced to death in a deadly robbery—even though he was never accused of firing a shot.

The Department of Justice is leaving Shelby County, but discrimination against Black children in court continues, a federal monitor says.