Criminal Justice

• Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Government: Love the Twitter, Hate the Tweet, Brian Doherty, February 16, 2011
• Texas Declines Compensation for Wrongly Convicted Man Who Spent 18 Years on Death Row, Radley Balko, February 15, 2011
• The Shaken Baby Problem, Radley Balko, February 11, 2011
• Lost in Translation: The Difference Between 'Hemp' and 'Hash' Could Be the Difference Between Life and Death, Jacob Sullum, February 10, 2011
• Magic Words to Repeat While Beating Inmates Unconscious: "Stop Resisting", Stephen J. Smith, February 8, 2011
• Judge Orders Prior Restraint of Political Speech, Radley Balko, February 8, 2011
• This Week in Innocence, Radley Balko, February 8, 2011
• This Week in Innocence, Radley Balko, February 4, 2011
• More on the Non-Existent "War on Cops", Radley Balko, February 3, 2011
• NPR Visits Mississippi, Radley Balko, February 2, 2011
• L.A. Teen Charged With "Attempted Lynching" Now Gets Raided by Police, Radley Balko, January 28, 2011
• You'll Stick With Your Crappy School, and You'll Like It, Radley Balko, January 25, 2011
• We Want Peace and We'll Cut Off the Hands of Anybody Who Says Otherwise, Tim Cavanaugh, January 23, 2011
• Another Illinois Resident Charged for Recording Police, Radley Balko, January 23, 2011
• The Simpsons, Skins, and Child Porn, Jacob Sullum, January 20, 2011
• Sexting Prosecutor Wants Immunity, Radley Balko, January 18, 2011
• Iowa Legislator Seeks to Criminalize Cocktails, Jacob Sullum, January 14, 2011
• The Most Amazing Wrongful Conviction Story You'll Read Today, Radley Balko, January 14, 2011
• Looking for Loughners, Jacob Sullum, January 13, 2011
• Should Public Health Trump the Bill of Rights?, Damon W. Root, January 13, 2011
• If Mental Illness Made Him Do It, Why Punish Him?, Jacob Sullum, January 12, 2011
• Heavy Metal and the Tucson Shootings, Damon W. Root, January 12, 2011
• Loughner’s Lawyer, Damon W. Root, January 11, 2011
• This Week in Innocence, Radley Balko, January 5, 2011
• Who Was the Worst Prosecutor of 2010?, Radley Balko, January 3, 2011
• Steven Hayne, Expert for the Defense, Radley Balko, January 2, 2011
• The Grand Jury Farce, Radley Balko, December 30, 2010
• Why Brian Aitken Wasn't Pardoned, Radley Balko, December 29, 2010
• Is Jury Nullification Legal?, Damon W. Root, December 28, 2010
• Wisconsin Supreme Court: Sex Offender Registries Needn't Be Limited to Sex Offenders, Radley Balko, December 27, 2010
• Reason Writers Around the Web: Radley Balko on the Siobhan Reynolds Case for Slate, December 22, 2010
• Montana Jurors Just Say No to a Penny-Ante Pot Case, Jacob Sullum, December 21, 2010
• Chris Christie Commutes Brian Aitken's Sentence, Radley Balko, December 20, 2010
• Obama's War on Terror Is Not 'Bush Lite'—It's More Like Bush Light, Jacob Sullum, December 16, 2010
• A Roundup of "Nut-Punch" Criminal Justice Stories, Radley Balko, December 10, 2010
• PJTV on the Brian Aitken Case, Radley Balko, December 10, 2010
• What Does It Take for Republicans to Recognize the Perils of Excessive Prosecutorial Discretion?, Jacob Sullum, December 6, 2010
• Obama Ends His Pardon Drought. Meekly., Radley Balko, December 5, 2010
• Mississippi Supreme Court Grants Cory Maye a New Trial, Radley Balko, December 2, 2010
• Supreme Court Reviews Order to Free California Prisoners, Jacob Sullum, November 30, 2010
• You Don't Have to Sleep at Home, but You Can't Sleep Here, Jacob Sullum, November 18, 2010
• Maybe Teenaged Sexters Shouldn't Be Treated Like Child Pornographers, Jacob Sullum, November 18, 2010
• Supreme Court Declines to Hear First Amendment Challenge to an Appeals Court Ruling You Still Can't Read, Jacob Sullum, November 15, 2010
• Wrongly Convicted Missouri Man Ineligible for Compensation, Radley Balko, November 12, 2010
• This Week in Innocence: Why the Hell is Kenny Hulshof Still Practicing Law?, Radley Balko, November 10, 2010
• If We Unsealed the Brief, You Might Talk About It, Jacob Sullum, November 8, 2010
• Last Night's Good News on the Criminal Justice Front, Radley Balko, November 3, 2010
• A First Amendment Case You Can't Talk About, Jacob Sullum, October 28, 2010
• This Week in Innocence, Radley Balko, October 28, 2010
• Latinos Also Especially Screwed Over by Pot Prohibition, Though Not As Much As Blacks, Jacob Sullum, October 27, 2010
• Law Enforcement, Accountability, and Democracy, Radley Balko, October 27, 2010
• New Study Highlights Dramatic Racial Disparities in California Pot Arrests, Jacob Sullum, October 22, 2010
• Glee, The Simpsons, and Virtual Child Porn, Jacob Sullum, October 21, 2010
• How a Chemical Cat Fight Became a Federal Case, Jacob Sullum, October 20, 2010
• Poppy-Seed Bagel Triggers Kafka-esque Nightmare, Radley Balko, October 19, 2010
• Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Abuse of 'Material Witness' Statute, Jacob Sullum, October 18, 2010
• Worst. Prosecution. Ever., Radley Balko, October 15, 2010
• Mississippi Poised To Hire First State Medical Examiner in 15 Years, Radley Balko, October 15, 2010
• What Sort of Lunatic Thinks a Crime Requires a Victim?, Jacob Sullum, October 13, 2010
• Baby Snatching: It's Hilarious When We Just Don't Like Their Kind, Brian Doherty, October 8, 2010
• The Show Trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Jacob Sullum, October 7, 2010
• Casinos Warm to Online Poker, Jacob Sullum, October 6, 2010
• Remembering the G.W. Bush Years: Whatever Became of Scooter Libby, the Arab Street, and William Hung?, Tim Cavanaugh, October 6, 2010
• Another Study Shows Widespread Prosecutorial Misconduct, Little Sanction, Radley Balko, October 5, 2010
• Reason Writers on the Tube: Radley Balko on Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, October 5, 2010
• "Not Guilty", Damon W. Root, October 1, 2010
• New Cato Paper Sees $88 Billion Annual Budgetary Benefit From Calling Off the War on Drugs, Jacob Sullum, September 27, 2010
• Caffeine-Crazed Killer, Jacob Sullum, September 20, 2010
• Drug Arrests Down, Pot Arrests Up, Jacob Sullum, September 16, 2010
• Federal Judge Rules That a Former Mississippi Prosecutor, Now a Judge, Lied in Court, Radley Balko, September 14, 2010