The Scranton Police Department this month began recording some interrogations, making them among the first in Lackawanna County to record such interactions. Suspects held and interrogated in the ...

Using federal funds and a share of $250,000 from a settlement with international banks that violated U.S. sanctions, a state grant will enable two Capital Region law enforcement agencies record more ...

Interrogation rooms in Uzbek police stations are to be installed with closed-circuit cameras in the wake of the recent death of a detainee who had been severely beaten while in custody. Deputy ...

The Scranton Police Department expects to begin recording interrogations this month, putting the county’s largest municipal agency at the forefront of a statewide policy issue that law enforcement, ...

Officers came out in force to oppose a bill that would require law enforcement professionals to record their interrogations. Sen. David Hogue, R-Minot, presented Senate Bill 2125 in the Senate ...

AUSTIN – The effort to slash Texas' wrongful-conviction rate, which remains the highest in the nation, is leading to familiar territory for state lawmakers: a years-old fight over whether police ...

Suffolk police had trouble last year recording at least two interrogations, including one in which detectives said a suspect confessed to being involved in a fatal robbery. And, a city spokeswoman ...

More than two decades after a state investigations panel raised concerns about Suffolk's "astonishingly high" homicide confession rate, Suffolk police will begin recording all homicide interrogations.

Confessions are a crucial form of evidence in our legal system. In my former career as a police officer, and in my current one as an attorney, I’ve seen confessions seal convictions, sway juries, and ...