Criminal Justice Reporter
While rising crime created headwinds for candidates who supported criminal justice reform, the apocalyptic storm never quite arrived.
Criminal justice advocates are pushing to pass legislation to tighten rules for juvenile interrogations, but the NYPD is not on board.
A compromise to cram crack sentencing reform into the year-end omnibus spending bill fell apart at the last minute.
Texas law allows police to withhold records of suspects who were never convicted. Police abuse it to hide records from families, reporters, and lawyers investigating deaths in custody.
The move comes as legislation flounders in Congress to end the crack-powder sentencing disparity once and for all.
Long delays and management failures "allowed serious, repeated sexual abuse in at least four facilities to go undetected."
The city of Vallejo, California, has paid millions in recent years to settle excessive force lawsuits against its heavy-handed police force.
The game is one of the greatest pieces of outsider art created in the 21st century, and it just got a lot easier to play.
The New York Civil Liberties Union is fighting about a dozen different lawsuits against stonewalling police departments.
Civil liberties groups say Adams' plan violates constitutional rights protecting people with mental illness from being confined against their will simply for existing.
The cop who killed Shaver was fired. But he will receive a disability pension for the rest of his life because he claims he has post-traumatic stress disorder.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
The ACLU of Oregon is calling on other state governors to follow suit.
If it comes down to a party-line vote, Republicans don't have enough seats in the state Senate to remove Krasner from office.
That guard would later be convicted of sexually assaulting four other incarcerated women.
The video game merges free market trading with exciting space combat, and your ethics and goals are up to you.
The two sheriff's deputies have been disciplined, and the sheriff called the arrest "unacceptable."
Apocalyptic attack ads about crime failed to drive a red wave, and criminal justice reform candidates were still successful in several local races around the country.
Cotton is one of the Senate's staunchest drug warriors and no friend of liberty.
California police seized more than $17,000 from Vera and Apollonia Ward and accused them of laundering drug money, all without charging them with a crime. The two sisters were trying to start a dog-breeding business.
The Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in Timbs v. Indiana revived the Excessive Fines Clause. Now state courts have to come up with tests to determine what's excessive.
State prisons around the country ban the roleplaying game, too, because of bizarre concerns about gang behavior and security threats.
Reason first reported last week on the scathing contempt order, which said the Bureau of Prisons should be "deeply ashamed" of its conduct.
A federal judge wrote that the Bureau of Prisons should be "deeply ashamed" of medical delays that resulted in a man dying from treatable cancer.
In fact, most were caught on federal property with small amounts of pot.
Plus: The editors unpack a philosophical question from a listener concerning foreign policy.
The Federal Prison Oversight Act would create an independent ombudsman to investigate complaints about the Bureau of Prisons, something prison advocacy groups have long called for.
Libertarians have some common ground with the abolitionists—but if they insist on anti-capitalism as a litmus test, abolitionists will find themselves isolated and marginalized.
An inspector general report found poor staff training led to children languishing for weeks in an emergency tent shelter inside an Army base in Texas last year.
The report says the inaccuracies "deprived Congress and the American public of information about who is dying in custody and why."
"The Court fails to see how the presence of a person recording a video near an officer interferes with the officer's activities," the judge wrote.
The FBI used a network of snitches to spy on entertainers and activists, and the Queen of Soul was no exception.
Tiffany Lindsay wants answers and an apology after her neighbors discovered her dead dog, shot the night before by Detroit police, in their garbage can.
The FBI's long history of using informants and manufactured plots to prosecute extremists
Criminal justice groups say the numbers vindicate their push to keep those people from being sent back to prison.
More than 900 had been held in isolation for more than a decade.
The lawsuit argues the new law will chill protected First Amendment activities and keep media and the public from holding police accountable.
After an embarrassing failure for the FBI counterterrorism program, federal prosecutors won convictions against two of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The messy rollout of a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to felons is now creating more felony crimes.
The video shows three officers kicking, punching, and slamming the man's head into the pavement. State police are now investigating.
Former state attorney Andrew Warren says DeSantis unconstitutionally retaliated against him for his opinions, not any actions he had taken.
A court monitor's report found evidence of neglect and abuse of dementia patients, including signing "do not resuscitate" orders that they could not understand.
The lawsuit says police in Rosenberg, Texas, have a history of excessive force and unlawful searches, especially against those with medical vulnerabilities.
The federal prison system is plagued by corruption and civil rights abuses.
The pediatric neurosurgeon who first popularized shaken-baby syndrome has doubts about how it is used in courtrooms today.
Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water might lead to "disobedience," prison officials say.
Civil liberties groups oppose the law, saying it will impede First Amendment–protected activity and protect bad cops.
"No legitimate humane system would operate in this manner," the judge concluded.
