Andrew Cohen

Nicholas Glisson died 37 days into an eight year prison sentence while under the care of a private health contractor. 

A legal case about the rights of registered sex offenders has gone all the way to the Supreme Court. Here's what you need to know. 

Elliot Earl Williams, an inmate of the Tulsa County Detention Center, laid on the floor of his jail cell, paralyzed, without receiving any help for 51 hours before he died.

Phillip Chance's decades-long journey through the criminal justice system is an epic story of missed opportunities, political grandstanding, and bad timing.

A failure of all checks and balances within the criminal justice system leaves Clifton Dewayne Harvin serving 60 years in prison. 

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit filed by a group of mentally ill prisoners against federal prison officials at ADX-Florence. 

In 1982 , JoAnn Tate was murdered in front of her two young children. A 7-year-old would, in some ways, become the judge and jury on the case.

A new lawsuit challenges part of the Alabama constitution that allows election registrars to determine voting eligibility based on the "moral turpitude" of convicted felons.

Percell Warren and Nathaniel Epps died while fighting a rape conviction — but their battle still goes on.

Can a man be convicted of assault if he committed the crime while he was suffering from a brain hemorrhage? A criminal case from the past sheds light on today's justice system.

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court made a decision in the case New York Times v Sullivan that would forever alter the way journalists practiced journalism. Brooke speaks with Andrew Cohen, contributing editor at The Atlantic and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, about the decision's impact on the First Amendment.

Supreme Court audio courtesy of Oyez®, a multimedia judicial archive at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

With the arrest of a suspect in the Boston bombing, there are now a host of legal questions emerging. Should he have been immediately read his Miranda rights? Should he be labelled an "enemy combatant"? What kind of trial will Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get? Legal journalist Andrew Cohen, contributor to The Atlantic, legal analyst for 60 Minutes, and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, provides context.

Voters in 38 states across the country also cast their votes yesterday on a total of 176 ballot measures. Among the initiatives that passed: Maine and Maryland became the first states...

Forget the presidential hubbub. Millions of voters could wake up tomorrow in a state where marijuana is legal. Not medicinal, not decriminalized — legal. Andrew Cohen, a contributing ...