A new book looks at a forensic tool, developed in Chicago, that the overwhelming majority of hospital nurses aren't trained ...

Sam: But at this time, there was also a large anti-rape movement emerging in the country. Pagan Kennedy: And the funny thing I found while working on my book was actually at this time, there were ...

The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee unanimously passed a bill that could eliminate the state’s backlog of rape ...

The kits take DNA from victims of sexual assault ... “The Debbie Smith Act has been the most effective anti-rape legislation that Congress has ever passed,” said Scott Berkowitz, Rainn's ...

The backlog of the exams, commonly referred to as rape kits, was exacerbated by a CBI scandal in which a lab analyst, Yvonne “Missy” Woods, was found to have manipulated the results of more ...

Justice Jill Karofsky said that Brad Schimel, as attorney general, did not ask his Republican colleagues for funds to move rape kits testing ahead. Karofsky contends Schimel prioritized partisan legal ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Indiana lawmakers are considering a way out of a long-standing rape kit backlog. Like its neighboring state of Kentucky, Indiana has faced a backlog in rape kits in the ...