Knife offenders are avoiding jail because courts and prosecutors are failing to apply laws that require them to impose mandatory prison sentences, watchdogs have found.

Former N.J. Attorney General Chris Porrino urges the state to enact key reforms on fines, sentencing and elderly inmate ...

A new Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on second-degree murder sentences won't impact any of Cambria or Somerset counties' ...

Pennsylvania can finally be removed from the small list of states that unfairly impose a mandatory sentence of life without parole for felony murder, known as second-degree murder.

The court decision could give more than 1,000 inmates in Pennsylvania a chance at parole, according to advocates.