Feb 24 George Zimmerman will not face federal charges in Trayvon Martin’s death By Anna Sillers The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that George Zimmerman, known for fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012, will not face charges. Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch 6:02 Website that kept watch on D.C. homicides shuts down By PBS News Hour Homicide Watch, an online database that records and tracks homicide cases, was created to document under-reported crimes in Washington, D.C. The site has been praised by law enforcement and the families of victims, but is shutting down in that city. Continue watching
Sep 14 First federal unit set up to correct wrongful convictions By Carey Reed The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington has set up the first federal unit to identify and investigate cases that ended in wrongful convictions, Reuters reports. Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch News Wrap: Two men freed, 30 years after murder conviction By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, 50-year-old Henry McCollum and his half-brother Leon Brown were set free from prison in North Carolina, 30 years after they were falsely convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl. DNA evidence shows the girl… Continue watching
Aug 24 Man who served 24 years released after arson-murder case thrown out By Carey Reed After serving 24 years of a life sentence in a maximum-security Pennsylvania prison for a 1990 arson-murder conviction, a New York man was freed on bail. Continue reading
Jul 02 Rappers respond: ‘This is how we express ourselves’ By Saskia de Melker A man shoots his foe in the head over and over again, leaving him to bleed out on the street. The man has no remorse. He even brags about it. Only this man isn’t real. He’s a… Continue reading
May 20 Watch Poet Gina Loring considers lost potential of LA’s incarcerated youth By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 01 Watch How a national spike in incarcerations affects crime, cost and communities By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 11 U.S. Sentencing Commission takes steps to depopulate federal prisons By Willis Raburu In a bid to reduce the federal prison population, the U.S. Sentencing Commission set in motion a change of formula to determine the sentencing of low-level, nonviolent federal drug law offenders. The commission voted Thursday to reduce sentencing guidelines… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch Frontline’s ‘Lost in Detention’ Examines Immigration Enforcement For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching