Award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children in Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools. Later, assessing the state of the judiciary in America with Danielle Franco- Malone of Alliance for Justice.

A lawsuit has been filed against Penn State and Jerry Sandusky for sexual abuse charges. Marci Hamilton is part of the team that is suing. Then, should John Hinckley be allowed his freedom?

A three-judge panel from the D.C. Circuit court has upheld the constitutionality of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act and Ian Millhiser with the Center for American Progress tells us what that means. Then Mary Griffitts, a jury consultant talks about what’s next for the jurors in the Dr. Conrad Murray trial.

Susan Herman, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror in Taking Liberties.

Do churches have a religious right to discriminate with hirings and firings? The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church case today and Rob Boston from Americans United  for Separation of Church and State was there. Later Lis Wiehl, FOX legal analyst joins us to talk about other cases in the news.

Ernest Drucker is sure to provoke a debate and shift the paradigm of how we think about punishment and A Plague of Prisons offers a totally novel perspective on criminal justice in twenty-first-century America.

Retired Federal Judge Lillian McEwen talks about her relationship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in D.C. Unmasked & Undressed.

John Wayne Gacy is the story of a young lawyer fresh from the Public Defender’s Office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation’s history.For the first time, Judge Sam Amirante, Gacy’s lawyer and confidant with writer Danny Broderick, tell this chilling tale of how he defended an American serial killer.

The Fatal Gift of Beauty is  journalist Nina Burleigh’s mesmerizing  investigation of the twenty-six year sentence of Amanda Knox, the American woman who was accused of murder in Italy. Then, Lisa Taylor tells the story of how she was arrested and sent to jail in Thailand for smuggling drugs; watch the episode on the National Geographic Channel Locked Up Abroad.