The L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup is here. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this year's festival will feature Chelsea ...

Most notably, it would delete part of Florida Statute 961.04 that denies payment to exonerees with more than one nonviolent ...

Thankfully, State Rep. Traci Koster and State Sen. Jennifer Bradley have introduced bills this session that would make these ...

Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside and their advocates to question the state’s plan to build two new prisons.

A pair of state legislators are introducing a bill to ban deception in police interrogations – a practice that, though ...

A Baltimore judge issued her written decision on Adnan Syed's request to reduce his sentence to time served.The judge ruled that Syed will not serve more time for his conviction. His sentence was ...

An exoneree, once labeled a defendant, becomes a victim. To right this wrong, some states aim to make a wrongfully convicted citizen whole through compensation. However, in examining the evidence of ...

The bill would allow administrative law judges — rather than the Claims Advisory Board — to rule on wrongful conviction compensation cases and award a standardized rate of $75,000 for each year of ...

Americans don’t view democrats as aggressive, which is a problem Smith doesn’t have. Smith is unapologetically himself, and ...