Legal and Criminal Justice Information and Advice

Short meditation on the current design of the correctional system and the psychological impact of solitary confinement

One of the most baffling crimes in British history took place in a quiet Liverpool neighbourhood in 1931.

Nobody left Bart Corbin alive. In 1989, he murdered a girlfriend. In 2004, he murdered his wife Jennifer Corbin before she divorced him.

Joseph Pikul was a controlling and abusive man. When his wife Diane Pikul grew tired of his tirades and decided to divorce him, he murdered her instead.

In the summer of 1946 twelve year old Muriel Drinkwater took a short cut through the woods and was brutally murdered. Labelled 'The Red Riding Hood Murder' it has remained an unsolved crime.

Once the country learned her story, Colleen Stan's experience was considered to be "unparalleled in FBI history." Here is the story of the girl who spent more than 7 years locked in a box under a bed.

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Or does it?

Leonard Peltier is a Native American who has spent more than four decades, and counting, in prison for a crime he almost certainly did not commit.

Over the years our criminal justice system has taken steps to improve the efficacy and reliabilty of its final outcomes. However, several innocent individuals have been incarcerated or executed due to negligence. The "fortunate" ones were able to get exonerated after years of suffering in prison.

With budget cuts and many in-patient facilities being closed down, mental health consumers are finding themselves caught up in the criminal justice system.

After Ruth Pelke was viciously murdered by 15-year-old Paula Cooper, Ruth’s grandson, Bill Pelke, forgave Cooper and fought against the sentence that made the teen the youngest inmate on death row.

Tips for dealing with abusive restraining orders filed for retaliation or out of spite.

Here is a summary of the pros and cons of the death penalty, and an opportunity for readers to share their views.

This article provides a list of some of the most notorious serial killers in the history of the United States. Body counts weren't emphasized in this story, instead the infamous nature of these dastardly criminals.