reports Criminal Justice

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)

A Dangerous Business
(60 minutes) Each year, six thousand Americans lose their lives on the job. Tens of thousands more are seriously injured or exposed to deadly poisons and carcinogens ... (more)

A Crime of Insanity
(60 minutes) In December 1994, Ralph Tortorici, a twenty-six-year-old psychology student at the State University of New York, walked into a classroom, pulled out a hunting knife ... (more)

The Man Who Knew
(90 minutes) As an FBI agent who specialized in counter-terrorism, John P. O'Neill investigated the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole ... (more)

Campaign Against Terror
(120 minutes) In this two-hour special, FRONTLINE recounts for the first time on television the behind-the-scenes story of the U.S. and world response to the September 11 ... (more)

Did Daddy Do It?
(60 minutes) In 1984, Cuban immigrant Frank Fuster was living the American dream. He had a new house in the suburbs, a successful landscaping business, and a ... (more)

Requiem for Frank Lee Smith
(60 minutes) In December 2000, after spending fourteen years on Floridas Death Row, Frank Lee Smith was finally cleared of the rape and murder of eight-year-old Shandra ... (more)

American Porn
(60 minutes) It's one of the hottest industries in America -- and with adult movies, magazines, retail stores, and the growth of the Internet -- business is ... (more)

Inside the Terror Network
(60 minutes) The hijackers of September 11 led such outwardly ordinary lives that they moved through Europe and America virtually unnoticed. They plotted in broad daylight, weaving ... (more)

An Ordinary Crime
(90 minutes) It was a robbery gone wrong, and when it was over, a woman had been shot in the head. Fingerprint evidence identified one of the ... (more)

Trail of a Terrorist
(60 minutes) On December 14, 1999, Ahmed Ressam was detained at the U.S./Canadian border when an alert customs agent became suspicious of Ressam's hesitant answers to her ... (more)

LAPD Blues
(60 minutes) All is not well inside the Los Angeles Police Department. The worst corruption scandal in the force's history has devastated a police department once ... (more)

Hackers
(60 minutes) Designed to facilitate the free exchange of ideas, the Internet has become home to confidential-even classified-information from virtually every nation in the world. Financial information, ... (more)

Juvenile Justice
(90 minutes) Should teenagers who commit serious crimes be tried as juveniles or adults? What happens to young offenders who reach the 'end of the line' ... (more)

Real Justice
(180 minutes) Homicides, drug arrests, car theft, assault and battery...it's all in a day's work for the prosecutors of Boston's criminal courts, where 50,000 cases are decided ... (more)

Drug Wars
(240 minutes) In 1968, the federal drug enforcement budget was $60 million. By the end of fiscal year 1999, that same budget had exploded to more than ... (more)

Assault on Gay America
(60 minutes) On February 19, 1999, in Sylacauga, Alabama, 39-year-old computer programmer Billy Jack Gaither was murdered - the victim of a violent hate crime. One ... (more)

The Killer at Thurston High
(90 minutes) In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, fifteen-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston ... (more)

The Case For Innocence
(90 minutes) Fifteen years ago, DNA analysis was nonexistent. Today, more than seventy inmates accused of rape and murder have been freed because DNA tests proved ... (more)

Justice For Sale
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE and Bill Moyers investigate how campaign cash is corrupting America's courts. In the thirty-nine states where judges are elected, special interest money is pouring ... (more)