criminal justice

The new regulations and penalties approved by Louisville Metro Council are another tool to address copper wire theft.

The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case are still playing out.

The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about the sentencing of Brett Hankison, the former police officer involved in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.

A judge issued an order on Friday, telling the Tennessee Department of Correction to disable a man’s heart implant before executing him. Now the agency is claiming it can’t do it.

Tuesday's verdicts and recommended prisons sentences end the trial that begin in Warren County June 24.

Jury deliberations begin Tuesday in the disappearance and presumed death of Bardstown mother Crystal Rogers.

A judge on Tuesday denied motions to acquit two men charged in the disappearance and presumed murder of a young Bardstown mother. The ruling means the case will proceed before a Warren County jury.

The Trump administration has a novel strategy to boost arrests and reduce courts' backlog: dismissing people's immigration cases and immediately arresting them.

Clark County is set to receive more than $82,000 for the county jail’s first weeks as an ICE holding facility. That number is expected to increase.