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Two federal correctional officers in New York City who were responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death are under criminal investigation for allegedly not checking on the jailed financier.
A federal jury has convicted longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone of lying to Congress and tampering with a witness about his efforts to learn about the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks release of hacked Democratic emails in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In the fight with the Manhattan district attorney over his subpoena of President Trump’s tax returns, the president’s lawyers have asserted that he is immune from any local criminal investigation.
The 16-year-old student who shot five fellow high school students before shooting himself used a .45-caliber pistol that he was too young to have bought legally.
The Trump administration is taking credit for the decline in apprehensions, based on its program that requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico. But a new draft report by the Department of Homeland Security questions the tactics that border officials are using.
Federal prosecutors have decided not to file any criminal charges against two U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot an unarmed motorist in Virginia in 2017. The officers fired nine times into a vehicle that drove away from them after a highway stop.
Federal criminal justice data has never gotten enough funding or attention, a Prison Policy Initiative researcher writes. But over the past two years, delays in critically needed reports have gone from bad to worse.
Nearly three years after they were enacted, reforms in New Jersey’s cash bail system have caused major shifts in the justice system. Among the surprises: fewer people being arrested for low-level crimes and jail populations that plummeted even more than expected.
Mississippi criminal justice data covering the past 25 years show that laws granting discretion to judges and prosecutors over when to charge children as adults end up treating black children far more harshly.
Hours after Chad Wolf was sworn as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, he named immigration hardliner and former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli as his deputy.