criminal justice

WUWM's Maria Peralta-Arellano participated in a U.S. Justice Department-based simulation about what it’s like to start from scratch when get out of prison and find yourself on community supervision.

CCAP. Four letters. One site. And an oversized impact on Wisconsin. The state’s most popular open record database lets you look up court records of anyone you’d like. And many people do. Sometimes, they learn more than they were expecting.

Milwaukee County’s district attorney has long sought to keep its "Brady List" secret. The list has the names of law enforcement officers with histories of credibility concerns or past crimes. A months-long, collaborative report examines what was being hidden from public view for so long.

A Milwaukee woman who argued she was legally allowed to kill a man because he was sexually trafficking her has pleaded guilty to homicide. Prosecutors allege Chrystul Kizer shot Randall Volar at his Kenosha home in 2018 when she was 17.

Freelance reporter Steven Potter spoke with several local FBI agents and even went through the FBI’s Citizens Academy to learn what goes on. Here's what he found out.

Veterans Treatment Court is a place where some veterans who've gotten into legal trouble can focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment, and where the approach is tailored to vets.

The Wisconsin Policy Forum explores the current state of Milwaukee County's criminal justice system as it recovers from the pandemic.

Chrystul Kizer is charged with first degree intentional homicide for shooting the man who trafficked her when she was a child. The case is scheduled for motion hearings to determine pre-trial issues in late September.

It's part of Marquette's growing prison education program, which for the first time is including jail guards in its class roster.

More than half of the criminal cases in Milwaukee County never make it to a trial, instead they end in a plea deal. An expert explains what plea deals are, how they work and what's the impact.