reports Criminal Justice

Post Mortem
(60 minutes) Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a ... (more)

The Confessions
(90 minutes) Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (Innocence Lost, An Ordinary Crime) investigates the ... (more)

Death by Fire
(60 minutes) Did Texas execute an innocent man? Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it's the ... (more)

Law & Disorder
(60 minutes) Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of ... (more)

The Madoff Affair
(60 minutes) In the mid-1960s, Bernard Madoff tapped money from Jewish businessmen at exclusive country clubs with the promise of steady guaranteed returns on their investments. He ... (more)

The Released
(60 minutes) This year, hundreds of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illnesses will be released into communities across America, the largest exodus in the nation's history. ... (more)

Black Money
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the shadowy world of international bribery. The story reveals how multi-national companies create slush funds, set up front companies, ... (more)

A Dangerous Business Revisited
(60 minutes) Five years ago, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate death and dismemberment in one of America's most dangerous industries -- the ... (more)

When Kids Get Life
(90 minutes) The U.S. is one of the very few countries in the world that allows children under eighteen to be prosecuted as adults and sentenced to ... (more)

Hand of God
(90 minutes) In recent decades, more than 10,000 children reportedly were sexually abused by Catholic priests in the United States. From behind the headlines, filmmaker Joe Cultrera ... (more)

The Meth Epidemic
(60 minutes) Speed. Meth. Glass. On the street, methamphetamine has many names. What started as a fad among motorcycle gangs in the 1970s ... (more)

Sex Slaves
(60 minutes) An estimated half-million women are trafficked annually for the purpose of sexual slavery. The women are kidnapped -- or lured by traffickers who prey ... (more)

The Torture Question
(90 minutes) In the uncertain weeks following September 11, an internal power struggle was underway deep inside the Bush administration. Waged between partisans at the highest ... (more)

The O.J. Verdict
(60 minutes) On October 3, 1995, an estimated 150 million people stopped what they were doing to witness the televised verdict of the O.J. Simpson trial. ... (more)

The New Asylums
(60 minutes) There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America's prisons and jails. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and ... (more)

The Plea
(90 minutes) It is the centerpiece of America's judicial process: the trial by jury system that places a defendant's fate in the hands of a jury of ... (more)

Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
(180 minutes) On November 20, FRONTLINE marks the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination with an encore broadcast of "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" - an investigative ... (more)

Chasing the Sleeper Cell
(60 minutes) What is the real story behind the group that U.S. intelligence called "the most dangerous terrorist cell in America?" FRONTLINE and The New York ... (more)

The Wall Street Fix
(60 minutes) With the nation's biggest banks about to finalize a record $1.4 billion settlement for securities violations, FRONTLINE investigates what New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ... (more)

Burden of Innocence
(60 minutes) In recent years, media headlines have trumpeted the release of more than 100 longtime inmates who have been exonerated by DNA testing. But what ... (more)