• Philadelphia DA explores new role for arts in the criminal justice system

    Philadelphia DA explores new role for arts in the criminal justice system

    Sep 30, 2020 10:15 PM EDT

    ... to Philadelphia, where this unexpected partnership has played out. A note: Parts of this story were shot before the pandemic. It's part of our Searching For Justice series and our ongoing Canvas arts and culture coverage. Jeffrey Brown: Portraits of people on all sides of the criminal justice system ...

  • During economic collapse, business owners with criminal records are haunted by their past

    During economic collapse, business owners with criminal records are haunted by their past

    Aug 06, 2020 10:30 PM EDT

    ... Paycheck Protection Program opened for applications about four months ago. But, as our economics correspondent Paul Solman discovered, accessing that funding has been a challenge for business owners with a criminal record. This report is part of our new series, Searching For Justice. Quan Huynh: I went to prison for ...

  • U.S. prisons are crowded, dirty and opaque. COVID-19 is running rampant.

    U.S. prisons are crowded, dirty and opaque. COVID-19 is running rampant.

    May 14, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    ... space. But people we spoke to inside say it is too little, too late. Tonight, we are launching a new series of reports on criminal justice reform. We are calling it Searching For Justice. In a moment, William Brangham will talk with the former medical director of New York's ...

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    Awards

    Nov 19, 2013 09:54 PM EDT

    ... Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast category: "Inside Venezuela" News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast category: "Searching for Justice" News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage category: "Best Health Care?"

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    Governance in India: Women's Rights

    Mar 08, 2013 04:50 PM EDT

    ... city of Jalandhar in Punjab were taken to court, and only five people were convicted, while thirty others were acquitted due to lack of evidence. Searching for Justice India's slow, overburdened, and under-funded criminal justice system has exacerbated the plight of rape and sexual assault victims, analysts say ...

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    Women's Rights Advocate Fights Impunity of Gender Crimes in Guatemala

    Mar 07, 2011 05:00 AM EDT

    ... I started a battle so that her aggressor would be judged, and her case wouldn’t be kept in impunity. It was my searching for justice that I learned that there were many women in my country who were suffering all kinds of violence. We had to face the justice ...

  • Senate launches group to examine reports of corruption and abuse in federal prisons

    Senate launches group to examine reports of corruption and abuse in federal prisons

    Feb 17, 2022 11:59 PM EDT

    ... lockdown. In early January, the embattled federal prisons director, Michael Carvajal, announced he was resigning amid growing criticism over his leadership of the bureau. The Justice Department is searching for a new director — even posting advertisements on LinkedIn — but hasn’t found a replacement yet. “America’s prisons and jails ...

  • Trump roundtable looks at how to help inmates transition out of prison system

    Trump roundtable looks at how to help inmates transition out of prison system

    Jan 11, 2018 10:38 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has promoted a tough-on-crime agenda at the White House. But he says the nation needs to find ways to help inmates eventually re-enter society. Searching for conservative solutions on criminal justice, Trump convened a group of governors, faith-based leaders and experts on ...

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    Obama, Civil Rights Leaders Formally Dedicate MLK Memorial

    Oct 17, 2011 10:50 PM EDT

    ... KING III, son of Martin Luther King Jr.: The young people of the Occupy movement all over this country and throughout the world are seeking justice, justice for the employed searching for months for jobs and those among them having given up in despair, justice for working-class people barely ...

  • Why the Supreme Court may reverse Roe in Mississippi abortion ban case

    Why the Supreme Court may reverse Roe in Mississippi abortion ban case

    Dec 01, 2021 11:55 PM EDT

    ... lose their job, or their relationship breaks apart, or they have medical complications. Or, for many women, they don't have the resources to pay for it earlier. Judy Woodruff: And, Mary, we were saying earlier that the chief justice seems to be searching for a middle ground here? Mary ...