US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro calls to lower the "age of accountability" after a 16-year-old's arrest for murder.

Grand jury report cites gang violence and staff shortages at Woodburn prison where 60% of those in custody are now adults.

Concerns about crime have been the foundation for decades of get-tough policies aimed at deterring crime. The belief is that ever-greater punishment — by hiring more police, increasing prosecution, ...

(This) seems at first blush like an exceptionally light sentence,' judge tells Philip Kirby during sentencing for crime spree ...