Brett Surbey is a corporate paralegal and freelance writer based out of Alberta, Canada. His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Canadian Mortgage Trends, Industry West Magazine, and various ...

There are no immediate plans to revise a provision in Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate Law that is resulting in the public losing access to troves of records about criminal cases. After PennLive highlighted ...

The country has been captivated lately by several high-profile criminal cases involving made-for-TV courtroom moments and casts of celebrity characters. One noteworthy case that has received less ...

On September 5, 2019, the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing adopted a Sentence Risk Assessment Instrument that has been subject to harsh criticism and lacks public approval. After years of ...

Pennsylvania will soon provide funding for indigent criminal defense. The legislature approved $7.5 million for criminal defense for those who cannot afford an attorney. The historic legislation was ...

In an experiment being watched across the country, Pennsylvania court officials began scrubbing more than 3 million old, nonviolent criminal charges from the public docket over the weekend. They are ...

Lower-level criminal convictions in Pennsylvania began to be automatically sealed Friday under a state law touted as a way to give offenders a fresh start. (Watch the report in the video player above.

Elected officials and corrections administrators in Pennsylvania have been doing a bit of a victory lap after the recent announcement that our state prison population dropped by 1,000 people in 2018.

Forty million — that's the number of criminal charges in Pennsylvania that will be eligible for automatic record sealing starting Friday under the state's Clean Slate law. While law enforcement will ...