Among the people acquitted in homicide cases last year, over two-thirds were minorities, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.
Federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terror attacks changed the way states vet residents applying for identification documents.
A report released by two civil rights groups alleges that federal immigration authorities broke the law.
At a conference in New Orleans, the U.S. attorney general echoed President Obama’s calls for reform in the nation's prisons.
In an op-ed published Monday, the president said the reforms would affect approximately 10,000 federal prisoners.
The 6-3 ruling Monday retroactively applies the U.S. Supreme Court’s ban on automatic life-without-parole sentences for minors.
A gay Mexican undocumented immigrant can stay in the U.S. now that a judge says he could face danger if deported.
The Army sergeant, who disappeared from his Afghanistan outpost in 2009, deferred entering a plea and choosing a type of trial.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said the pardons are designed to improve access to jobs, housing and services, helping people move on with their lives.
During his final 2015 press conference Friday, Obama said that he wants to continue to work with Congress on criminal justice reform.
Ethan Couch was sentenced to probation two years ago after killing four people in a drunk driving accident.
Hillary Clinton's director of Latino outreach, a former undocumented immigrant, became a U.S. citizen Tuesday.
Last week, Pistorius was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, after judges overturned his previous conviction of culpable homicide.
Beats headphones, cell phones and handbags were among the goods used to try to trick customers this year.
A report shows that over 4 million Americans are currently under some form of community supervision.
The request comes a year after Obama announced his Deferred Action for Parents of Americans initiative, which has been in legal limbo.
Police have carried out a series of raids all over France looking for suspects in the Paris attacks.
The ruling reversed a lower court's decision that California's death penalty system was unconstitutional.
According to a report by Amnesty International, Chinese police are still using coercive measures -- including torture -- to extract forced "confessions" from detainees and, in many cases, their lawyers.
Asylum seekers are a hot political issue in Australia where successive governments have vowed to stop them reaching the mainland.
Fires were lit and fences destroyed at the remote Christmas Island facility after the death of an Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker.
In the past year, the jail population in California has dropped by about 11 percent.
