Criminal Justice

• Reason Nominated for 8 "Maggie" Awards, Matt Welch, March 12, 2012
• Ordeal by Trial: Sowing Chaos With the Sixth Amendment, Jacob Sullum, March 12, 2012
• New Orleans Police Kill Unarmed Man During Pot Raid, Jacob Sullum, March 9, 2012
• With 12 Beholders, You Just Need One to Say It Might Be Art, Jacob Sullum, March 9, 2012
• Debating Hate Crime Laws With Thom Hartmann, Jacob Sullum, March 7, 2012
• Porn So Icky That It Can't Be Obscene, Jacob Sullum, March 5, 2012
• Illinois Judge Says Eavesdropping Law Is Unconstitutional, Jacob Sullum, March 2, 2012
• Should Police Need a Warrant to Search an Arrestee's Cellphone?, Jacob Sullum, March 2, 2012
• Who Started That Deadly Shootout in Ogden?, Jacob Sullum, February 29, 2012
• Immigrant Allegedly Killed Woman's Son While Driving Drunk, Somehow Illegal Immigration Is the Issue, Lucy Steigerwald, February 29, 2012
• No Sex Tape, No Outing in Tyler Clementi Case, Jacob Sullum, February 28, 2012
• Can Lesbians Commit an Anti-Gay Hate Crime?, Jacob Sullum, February 27, 2012
• California Senator Introduces Bill to Reduce Drug Possession Crimes to Misdemeanors, Brian Doherty, February 27, 2012
• How Dharun Ravi Could Get 10 Years for Expressing Unapproved Views, Jacob Sullum, February 27, 2012
• Maybe He Just Likes Chatting With Cops, Jacob Sullum, February 24, 2012
• NYPD's Illegal Arrests Include Ticket Sellers As Well As Pot Smokers and Loiterers, Jacob Sullum, February 24, 2012
• Drug Paraphernalia Raids Make Books Disappear, Jacob Sullum, February 23, 2012
• Rand Paul Blocks Synthetic Drug Bans, Jacob Sullum, February 23, 2012
• Protect the Dead; Screw the Living (Definitely Not the Dead), Jacob Sullum, February 20, 2012
• Montana Medical Marijuana Providers Get What Passes for Lenience Under Our Drug Laws, Jacob Sullum, February 20, 2012
• Another Example of How New York Cops Make Their Own Law, Jacob Sullum, February 8, 2012
• L.A. Teachers Deliver for Kids by Blindfolding, Fondling Them, Tim Cavanaugh, February 6, 2012
• Detroit's Turn to Vigilantisim, Otherwise Called Private Justice, Shikha Dalmia, February 6, 2012
• Lawsuit Alleges NYPD Harassed Transgender Woman, Kept Her Chained for 28 Hours over Minor Subway Violation, Lucy Steigerwald, February 2, 2012
• Bogus Pot Busts Continue Apace in New York City, Jacob Sullum, February 1, 2012
• The New Yorker Has a Sobering Look at the Whys of America's Prison-Industrial Complex, Lucy Steigerwald, January 26, 2012
• Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel...for Criticizing the Police, Jacob Sullum, January 26, 2012
• What Should a Mayor Do About Police Abuse of Latinos? He 'Might Have Tacos', Jacob Sullum, January 26, 2012
• Mentally Ill Man Who Was Arrested, Put in Solitary for 22 Months, Awarded $22 Million for His Trouble, Lucy Steigerwald, January 25, 2012
• Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy, Jacob Sullum, January 24, 2012
• Out of 747,408 Registered Sex Offenders, How Many Are Actually Dangerous?, Jacob Sullum, January 23, 2012
• SCOTUS Rules That GPS Tracking Requires a Warrant, Jacob Sullum, January 23, 2012
• Tim Cavanaugh on Gingrich's Counterculture McGovernik Ethics: RT Big Picture, Tim Cavanaugh, January 20, 2012
• The Obama Administration’s Prosecutorial Overreach, Damon W. Root, January 19, 2012
• Arizona's Governor Will Implement Her State's Medical Marijuana Law, Jacob Sullum, January 19, 2012
• Feds in Colorado Seem to Be Targeting Medical Marijuana Dispensaries That Comply With State Law, Jacob Sullum, January 17, 2012
• Rick Santorum Worries About the Drug War's Racial Impact, Jacob Sullum, January 17, 2012
• Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Targeted by Colorado's U.S. Attorney May Be Complying With State Law, Jacob Sullum, January 15, 2012
• Do Federal Threats Against Medical Marijuana Suppliers in Colorado Break Holder's Promise?, Jacob Sullum, January 13, 2012
• SCOTUS Rulings Highlight Problems With Eyewitnesses, Jacob Sullum, January 13, 2012
• Franky Gets His Day in Court, Jacob Sullum, January 12, 2012
• Four Years After Busting a Guy for Recording an Arrest, Boston Police Admit They Should Not Have Done That, Jacob Sullum, January 11, 2012
• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Wants Your DNA, Lucy Steigerwald, January 10, 2012
• Morality in Media Suggests Another Reason to Vote Against Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich, Jacob Sullum, January 9, 2012
• Tribal Police in Arizona Seize Cars of Medical Marijuana Patients, Jacob Sullum, January 9, 2012
• Rick Santorum Does Not Know Drug Offenders Have Families, Jacob Sullum, January 6, 2012
• Clever Criminal or Crappy Cops?, Jacob Sullum, January 5, 2012
• Obama Promises Not to Use Military Detention for U.S. Citizens—I Think, Jacob Sullum, January 4, 2012
• Obama Ranks Third in ACLU Grades for Presidential Candidates, Jacob Sullum, January 2, 2012
• Cops Total BMW While Looking for Nonexistent Marijuana, Jacob Sullum, January 2, 2012
• Pain Patient Advocate Siobhan Reynolds Dies in Plane Crash, Jacob Sullum, December 26, 2011
• Innocent Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison Tries to Hold Prosecutor Accountable, Jacob Sullum, December 21, 2011
• If You Are a Potential Juror, Do Not Read This Post, Jacob Sullum, December 21, 2011
• Study Suggests Nearly 1 in 3 Young People Arrested By the Age of 23, Lucy Steigerwald, December 19, 2011
• Manning Hearings: Files on His Computer Don't Match WikiLeaks Releases, Brian Doherty, December 19, 2011
• CNN's OutFront with Erin Burnett: Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Cops, Angels, and Drones, December 16, 2011
• 'The Rule of Law' = Indefinite Detention Powers, Jacob Sullum, December 15, 2011
• Mike Riggs on the Prospect of Criminal Justice Reform in Florida, December 14, 2011
• Tim Cavanaugh Talks Prisons Live on KALW San Francisco, December 14, 2011
• Crooks Talk to Congress; Netflix Ninth-Worst Company; Comrade Vlad, and more: Reason Evening Links, Tim Cavanaugh, December 8, 2011
• Holder Fast and Furious Testimony: "I'm a big guy. I've been in Washington a long time.", Tim Cavanaugh, December 8, 2011
• Florida Drug Search Claims Flunk the Smell Test, Jacob Sullum, December 8, 2011
• After Illegally Busting Pot Smokers for More Than a Decade, the NYPD Starts Following the Law a Little More Often, Jacob Sullum, December 7, 2011
• Reasons to Support Reason's Webathon, Criminal Injustice Edition, Matt Welch, December 6, 2011
• Obama's 'Innovative, Compassionate, and Evidence-Based Drug Policies', Jacob Sullum, December 5, 2011
• Sexting by Minors Is Much Less Common Than You Think, Jacob Sullum, December 5, 2011
• 'The Bill of Rights Is Not a Trick', Jacob Sullum, December 1, 2011
• Colorado Drug Warrior Busted for Meth Distribution, Jacob Sullum, November 30, 2011
• Should Judges Continue Imposing Sentences Congress Has Rejected as Unfair?, Jacob Sullum, November 30, 2011
• Is the President's Indefinite Detention Power Limited to Foreigners?, Jacob Sullum, November 29, 2011