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Peer behind the courthouse door with former public defender Emily Galvin Almanza as she joins host Matt Adams to discuss her book, The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public ...

Take a stroll through Nashville’s Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and you’ll likely spend most of the time with your head angled up. At the entrance, a mosaic cast across the dome ceiling re-creates ...

CUTHBERT, Ga. (WALB) - A pardoning decades in the making. The story of Lena Baker, the only woman put to death by an electric chair in the state of Georgia, is still being set straight in the small ...

The power of the class action lies in its ability to provide redress to individuals who would otherwise lack access to justice. When these mechanisms function properly, they provide significant ...

California, that bellwether of the absurd, is about to do it again. The same legislature that rejected legislation to add human trafficking of a minor for purposes of a commercial sex act to the state ...

“If you can’t afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.” This promise, heard by countless people watching their favorite police procedural on TV and by even more people in real life, holds out ...

A person behind bars. The Alabama Department of Corrections said Thursday that the Department of Justice had scaled back a 2015 consent agreement to address sexual abuse and harassment of women ...