Crime, Law and Justice

Trump claims ex-lawyer's phone call recording is 'perhaps illegal'
Trump was responding to the revelation that former attorney Michael Cohen, weeks before the 2016 election, secretly recorded their discussion of a potential payment for a former Playboy model's account of having an affair with Trump.
Doctoral student compiles database of indigenous women who've gone missing
A doctoral student found no solid data on the many indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada who have gone missing or died under suspicious circumstances. So she compiled it herself.
Minnesota inmate accused in guard's death has violent past
Just before he went to prison for the 2002 stabbing death of a woman he was living with, Edward Muhammad Johnson pleaded guilty to assaulting a guard at the Hennepin County Jail. Once in prison, he racked up a lengthy list of infractions, mostly for fighting.
'Aggressive prosecution' promised in prison officer's killing
Minnesota corrections officials offered new details Thursday of the violent history of an inmate suspected of killing a corrections officer at the Stillwater state prison, and their plans moving forward.