Criminal defense attorneys in Jackson County, Missouri, have signed an open letter protesting a new security screening system that allegedly denies female lawyers to see their clients in the county ...

Nicole Forsythe, a criminal defense attorney, stands at the entrance to the Wyandotte County Courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas. Nicole Forsythe thought she was doing the right thing when she agreed to ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first step in a potential lawsuit is now underway against Jackson County, accusing the jail of sexual discrimination and retaliation. Attorneys continue to say changes to ...

As far as 74 criminal defense attorneys in Missouri are concerned, the security policy at a county jail seems drafted by a bunch of boobs. The lawyers all signed an open letter Thursday, protesting ...

The metal detector at the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City, Mo., beeped repeatedly when Laurie Snell, a lawyer, tried to enter the facility on May 31. She was passing through security on ...

Tales of women attorneys and visitors being forced to remove their bras in order to gain entry to the Jackson County jail almost sound too sexist to be true. But no, in fact, the Jackson County ...