criminal justice

Public pressure is mounting to free a 15-year-old Black girl sent to Oakland County juvenile detention for not doing her homework.The girl is known only…

Robert Williams of Farmington Hills was arrested and held for more than a day in January, on larceny charges that he stole Shinola watches from a downtown…

The ACLU of Michigan is launching a campaign to hold prosecutors responsible for inequities in the criminal justice system.The group says prosecutors are…

“Black lives matter to public defenders!”That was the rallying cry in front of Detroit’s Frank Murphy Hall of Justice on Monday, as a group of well over…

The governor will now have to decide if the criminal justice system should stop automatically treating 17-year-olds as adults.A bipartisan package of…

Today on Stateside, how the state is carrying out infrastructure projects it can't afford to maintain. Plus, an Interlochen Public Radio investigation…

Now that recreational marijuana is legal in Michigan, what happens to the around 50,0000 people who've previously been convicted of marijuana-related…

Detroit’s 36th District Court finds itself in an unusual position: as the defendant in a new lawsuit.The ACLU has sued the court over its cash bail…

In late 2016, former Governor Rick Snyder signed the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act, which went into effect the following March.The law…

Early this month, judges in five Michigan district courts started using a new tool to make bond decisions.It’s part of a new pilot program spearheaded by…