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Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page's final report says per capita spending on criminal justice has climbed 23 per cent over the past decade. But while the federal government sets justice policy, it's the provinces who pay two-thirds of the cost for jails, courts and policing. More...

AP - Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out. More...

Quebec's director of penal and criminal prosecutions says there will be an appeal of the decision to stay proceedings against 31 members and associates of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang arrested on drug charges. A Quebec Superior Court justice ordered their release Tuesday, arguing the court...

<div>Romeo Jacques Cormier's high-profile kidnapping trial is forcing the Department of Justice to send out 1,500 jury notices and to hold the selection at the Moncton Coliseum. 63-year-old Cormier is facing six charges, including kidnapping, unlawful confinement, sexual assault, theft of money...

The families of four RCMP officers ambushed and killed six years ago on a farm near Mayerthorpe, Alta., accused the justice system Friday of failing their sons. "The justice system failed us many times," said Don Schiemann on the final day of the fatality inquiry looking into the events leading...

— There are more than 40,000 people incarcerated in the state of North Carolina. Another 100,000 are on probation or parole. Leaders in the criminal justice system try to keep recidivism low, keeping prisoners from going back to prison once they are released. In Durham, revamping the former...

The Bastarache Commission's report says there's no concrete evidence of influence peddling in the appointment of judges in Quebec. Former Supreme Court of Canada justice Michel Bastarache said Wednesday that the evidence shows former justice minister Marc Bellemare appointed three judges to the...

Japanese Justice Minister Minoru Yanagida announces his resignation in Tokyo on November 22, 2010. Tokyo, Japan -- Japan's justice minister resigned on Monday, amid controversy about remarks he made -- comments that were seen as making light of his job. "My indiscreet remarks caused...

A statutory rape charge against an 18-year-old Michigan man who had sex with a 14-year-old girl has been dropped after the girl committed suicide, according to the Wayne County, Michigan, prosecutor's office. "Our witness was the evidence and her testimony was going to be our evidence in the...

Washington -- The Justice Department requested an emergency stay Thursday of a federal judge's injunction stopping enforcement of the military's policy that bars gay men and lesbians from serving openly. Justice Department lawyers say they want the federal court in California to grant a stay of...

Philippine abductions leader admits guilt WASHINGTON, A leader of an Islamic separatist group pleaded guilty Wednesday in the 1995 forced-march hostage-taking of 16 people in the Philippines, U.S. authorities said. The Justice Department said Madhatta Haipe, a Filipino who was a founding...

Family: Taser used on Justice Thomas' kin NEW ORLEANS, (UPI) -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was traveling to New Orleans to find out why his nephew was subdued with a stun gun at a hospital, his niece says. Kimberly Thomas told WGNO-TV, New Orleans, she called the justice...

Huge march in Phoenix protests Ariz. law PHOENIX, (UPI) -- Thousands of people protested Arizona's immigration law Saturday as the state attorney general denied the governor's charge that he seeks to overturn it. Some of the demonstrators drove overnight to march 5 miles under a scorching sun...

WASHINGTON – Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court, but his departure is unlikely to change its conservative-liberal split. President Barack Obama's first pick for the high court is likely to be a liberal-leaning nominee, much like Souter. The...

Obama abandons term 'enemy combatant' 18 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant The Justice Department said in legal filings that it will no longer use the...