Snowball Archive

Little hope of release for more than 160 Illinois juvenile offenders

By Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang | May 6, 2018

Across the country, juvenile offenders are being released from prison based on recognition they are not as mature as adults. In Illinois, many who commit crimes as teenagers are still likely destined to die in custody.

Colombian former official, seeking political asylum, faces extradition

By Jeanne Kuang | April 4, 2018

A Colombian former official says the U.S. promised help getting political asylum. Instead, he faces extradition without an asylum hearing.

Burge squad gone, but the cases live on

By Mari Cohen | December 10, 2017

Demond Weston has been saying he was tortured into a confession since 1992. Nobody listened then; and decades later, determining truth is a much greater task.