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Cognitive-behavioral limitations, also known as neurodisabilities, can dramatically affect how a person performs day-to-day activities. To effectively represent and interact with people involved in the justice system, lawyers and judges must recognize

Cognitive-behavioral limitations, also known as neurodisabilities, can dramatically affect how a person performs day-to-day activities. To effectively represent and interact with people involved in the justice system, lawyers and judges must recognize

An Iowa man who admitted to taking part in the assault of a police officer as part of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

A man who attacked police officers with poles during the riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five years in prison, matching the longest term

Three Americans were quietly jailed in Venezuela earlier this year for allegedly trying to enter the country illegally and now face long prison sentences in the politically turbulent nation

A measure that would change the California constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in criminal punishment did not pass the Senate in time to make a deadline for the November ballot,

CHICAGO — Aleksey Ruderman swept and mopped the floors of McHenry County jail, wiped tables, and cleaned the showers and the toilets — all against his will and without being

A former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery has died at age 78

WASHINGTON — Republican senators characterized Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial views as extremist and soft on crime, using her confirmation hearings to air a line of conservative grievances

An Alabama corrections officer is criminally accused of using excessive force against an inmate who later died