criminal justice

Gov. Mark Gordon also signed bills expanding the state’s definition of prostitution and changing the cutoff date to request a post-conviction DNA analysis.

Gov. Mark Gordon appointed Roden, a 25-year veteran of the Wyoming State Public Defender's Office, to the position on Aug. 5.

Twenty-two-year-old Lorna Roxanne Green appeared in court Friday morning. A grand jury charged her for setting Wellspring Health Access in Casper on fire last May. The attack delayed the clinic’s opening from June 2022 to April of this year.

A new report reveals the full picture of correctional control across the United States, including incarceration, probation and parole. Rates of incarceration and supervision vary widely across the Mountain West.

A new report commissioned by the Interior Department provides a window into the fatal mistreatment of inmates in its tribal jails. The review comes on the heels of a Mountain West News Bureau and NPR investigation that found a pattern of neglect and misconduct contributing to at least 19 deaths at tribal detention centers overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs since 2016.

The Wyoming House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that is intended to close a legal loophole. It classifies use of methamphetamine or narcotics by a pregnant woman as child endangerment.

Racial disparities are deeply pronounced in state prisons across the nation – and some Western states top the list.

The Defender Aid Clinic at the University of Wyoming's College of Law is behind a new podcast that dives into the racial disparities in the United States…

State lawmakers and police are looking for new solutions to a loophole that has long allowed non-Native people some degree of immunity from law…

Public defenders provide legal representation to people who can't afford private attorneys. They're appointed by a judge to represent those accused of a…