Criminal Justice

A memorial is being held today for a slain Texas district attorney and his wife. Their murder and the killing of an assistant DA in that same county in January spotlights a profession that Wisconsin DA’s already know is dangerous.

The Marathon County Sheriff's Department is calling for an independent study of conditions at the county jail, following an inmate assault that injured two correction officers, and left one of them hospitalized.

This is Part Two in a two-part series by Gilman Halsted on the upcoming Supreme Court election. Read or listen to the first entry here.

  The two candidates in the race for state Supreme Court disagree about the need to reduce the influence of money in judicial elections.

A street protest stemming from the Derek Williams case in Milwaukee has led to at least one person being taken into police custody.