Criminal Justice

Two members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board resigned earlier this summer, officially leaving the board following the August meeting Tuesday.

Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna is dismissing an array of criminal charges against seven police officers who shot and killed three people, she announced on Friday.

Instead of taking him to a hospital for evaluation or taking him to jail, an Oklahoma City police officer took Ernest Antwine to no man’s land. And that’s where he died.

As our guest notes in an award-winning article that she wrote for Mother Jones Magazine: "Failure-to-protect laws are incarcerating women all over the country -- for other people's violence."

"An eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at [America's] often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants -- young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and resilience." -- Booklist (starred review)

A professor at the Georgetown University Law Center examines the foundations of racist policing in America

A decades-long search by a Florida woman and her extended family linked to an unsolved murder case has resulted in the woman finding her missing granddaughter, now grown with no previous knowledge of her tragic history.

Bobby and Cheryl Love, a married couple based in Brooklyn, New York, tell us about their surprising, moving, and co-written new memoir.

Bobby and Cheryl Love, a married couple based in Brooklyn, New York, tell us about their surprising, moving, and co-written new memoir.

Bobby and Cheryl Love, a married couple based in Brooklyn, New York, tell us about their dramatic, surprising, moving, and co-written new memoir.