criminal justice

Previously on StoryCorps, LaShanda Warren-Barnes reflected on her family's role in her choosing a career in criminal justice. Now she's back to share some of the things she's learned while working in the courthouse.

In this edition of StoryCorps, LaShanda Warren-Barnes talks about her family and how her upbringing helped influence her life's work.

For those with an outstanding warrant for a nonviolent misdemeanor, the City of Mobile may have a way for offenders to take care of it without the risk of being arrested. The city's Legal Department and Municipal Court are partnering with the non-profit Growing Real Alternatives Everywhere (GRAE) to host a Warrant Clinic.

Peru's government will allow the extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean Island of Aruba, bringing her family hope there will be justice in the case.

MONTOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is creating a study commission to make recommendations on criminal justice reform as the state tries to…