Legal and Criminal Justice Information and Advice

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

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

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.

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

Dianne Masters wanted to divorce her powerful attorney husband, but Alan had too much to lose to let her out of the marriage alive.

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

Instead of spending time in jail, inmates can serve their sentence in a college writing class at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

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.

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

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

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.

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.