It’s a sham known as “sewer service.” When process servers regularly fail to deliver summonses, it leads to to automatic evictions for unwitting tenants.

In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines.

To read the transcript of Erin Hunter’s trial, which runs all of 81 pages and can be digested in half an hour, is to encounter a disregard for human dignity instrumental in producing the most sprawling system of incarceration in the world.

Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.

How one immigration court in Texas has shut the door on those seeking refuge in America.

What happened after two Wisconsin girls made headlines for attempting to kill their friend in the internet character’s name.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

The state attorney, who prosecuted Marissa Alexander and failed to convict George Zimmerman, has put hundreds of children behind bars.

A jury recommends life in prison; the judged orders a death sentence.

A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.

On the court system’s excessive fines.

Debates surrounding physician-assisted dying in the U.S.

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

On trying and sentencing juvenile offenders as adults.