Criminal Justice

March 26, 2008 - Earlier this week we brought you the story of North Carolina state Rep. Thomas E. Wright, a New Hanover County Democrat expelled from the legislature last week over charges that he misappropriated almost $350,000 in campaign and other funds. He and his attorneys -- among them N.C.

March 18, 2008 - For more than three decades, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have been locked in solitary confinement in Louisiana's notorious Angola prison for a murder the evidence shows they did not commit.

March 12, 2008 - Dessie Lee Patterson, the mayor of South Mansfield, La., was found murdered in her home yesterday following an apparent robbery. She was 88.

February 29, 2008 - This week, the Pew Center on the States released a bombshell study revealing that our country is locking up record numbers of people in jail and prison.

February 26, 2008 - A former inmate of a CCA run prison is protesting a former CCA executive's nomination to a federal judge post:

February 21, 2008 - Just when it looked like former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's stock was going up, the Wall Street Journal reports his legal troubles may be just beginning (sub req'd for full piece):

December 14, 2007 - The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on the disturbing case of Jamie Leigh Jones, the young Houston woman who alleges she was raped by several of her KBR coworkers in Iraq in July 2005 and then locked inside a shipping container by her employer,