Punishment/Prisons

• Dharun Ravi Gets 30-Day Jail Sentence, Plus Probation, Jacob Sullum, May 21, 2012
• How a Poster Boy for Commutation Falls Through the Cracks, Jacob Sullum, May 14, 2012
• New York's Highest Court Says Merely Looking at Kiddie Porn Is Not a State Crime, Jacob Sullum, May 9, 2012
• How Dharun Ravi's Prosecutors Turned a Minor, Nonviolent Offense Into a Felony Subject to a 10-Year Prison Sentence, Jacob Sullum, May 2, 2012
• 'Shock Artist' Could Get 25 Years for Offending Federal Prosecutors, Jacob Sullum, May 1, 2012
• Colorado Man Exonerated After Serving 18 Years for Murder, Jacob Sullum, May 1, 2012
• 20 Years for Standing Her Ground Against a Violent Husband, Jacob Sullum, April 25, 2012
• Russian President Pardons Just One Man Off List of 32 Cases Submitted by Opposition, Ed Krayewski, April 23, 2012
• How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?, Jacob Sullum, April 16, 2012
• SCOTUS Upholds Pre-Jail Strip Searches for Everyone, No Matter How Minor the Offense, Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• Paul Krugman: 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Increase Incarceration by Reducing It, Jacob Sullum, March 26, 2012
• SCOTUS Says Defendants Have a Right to Effective Counsel in Deciding Whether to Reject a Plea Bargain, Jacob Sullum, March 21, 2012
• Does Tyler Clementi's Suicide Prove Dharun Ravi Is a Bigot?, Jacob Sullum, March 20, 2012
• Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime?, Jacob Sullum, March 16, 2012
• Bill Bennett Takes Drug Policy Advice From Bruce Springsteen, Jacob Sullum, March 15, 2012
• Is Dharun Ravi Guilty of 'Bias Intimidation'?, Jacob Sullum, March 14, 2012
• Ordeal by Trial: Sowing Chaos With the Sixth Amendment, Jacob Sullum, March 12, 2012
• No Sex Tape, No Outing in Tyler Clementi Case, Jacob Sullum, February 28, 2012
• Montana Medical Marijuana Providers Get What Passes for Lenience Under Our Drug Laws, Jacob Sullum, February 20, 2012
• The State Squeal of Vermont, Jacob Sullum, February 3, 2012
• Rick Santorum Worries About the Drug War's Racial Impact, Jacob Sullum, January 17, 2012
• Rick Santorum Does Not Know Drug Offenders Have Families, Jacob Sullum, January 6, 2012
• Tim Cavanaugh Talks Prisons Live on KALW San Francisco, December 14, 2011
• Should Judges Continue Imposing Sentences Congress Has Rejected as Unfair?, Jacob Sullum, November 30, 2011
• Innocence Is No Defense Against Virginia's Sex Offender Registry, Jacob Sullum, November 28, 2011
• More of These, Please: Obama's First Commutation, Jacob Sullum, November 22, 2011
• 20 Years Later, Mandatory Minimum Sentences Are Still Mindlessly Draconian, Jacob Sullum, November 18, 2011
• A Life Sentence for Possessing Child Pornography, Jacob Sullum, November 7, 2011
• Chicago May Decriminalize Marijuana Possession, Jacob Sullum, October 28, 2011
• Reason.tv: Interview with Reason Cartoonist Peter Bagge, Nick Gillespie & Anthony L. Fisher, September 30, 2011
• The Escalating Penalty for Asserting Your Right to a Trial, Jacob Sullum, September 26, 2011
• You Call That a Mandatory Minimum?, Jacob Sullum, September 23, 2011
• California Prisons Isolate Some Inmates for Years, Lucy Steigerwald, September 6, 2011
• If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, Try, Try Again, Jacob Sullum, July 25, 2011
• Targeting Child Porn With Sarbanes-Oxley; or, How to Cut Your Sentence in Half With a Hammer, Jacob Sullum, July 22, 2011
• Reason On Radio: Tim Cavanaugh talks California Prison Guards on Fresno's KMJ 105.9FM 580AM, July 22, 2011
• Scientific Evidence Clearly Shows That Ecstasy Is Only 200 Times As Bad As Pot, Jacob Sullum, July 22, 2011
• The Yearbook Is Not Just Child Pornography; It's Also Evidence of a Sex Crime, Jacob Sullum, June 30, 2011
• U.S. Sentencing Commission Makes Crack Sentence Changes Retroactive, Jacob Sullum, June 30, 2011
• Stephen Cox on Libertarian Literature and Prisons as Failed Planned Societies, Paul Detrick, June 20, 2011
• How Gingrich's Love Drives Him to Kill, Jacob Sullum, June 17, 2011
• California High School Accidentally Distributes Child Porn, Jacob Sullum, June 17, 2011
• Did Jimmy Carter End the War on Drugs?, Jacob Sullum, June 17, 2011
• Prison Guards Union Locks Up Benefits, Politicians, People, Tim Cavanaugh, June 7, 2011
• Connecticut Decriminalizes Real Pot, Criminalizes Fake Pot, Jacob Sullum, June 7, 2011
• Growing Pot Remains a Felony in California, Jacob Sullum, June 3, 2011
• Holder Wants to Limit Crack Sentence Reductions, Jacob Sullum, June 3, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Conservative Response to the Supreme Court's Prison Crowding Decision, June 3, 2011
• Tim Cavanaugh, CBC Radio Say Eh to Prison Reform, May 28, 2011
• Chinese Prisons Forcing Inmates to Mine Gold...Online?, Nick Gillespie, May 27, 2011
• Drug Offenders in California's Overcrowded Prisons, Jacob Sullum, May 24, 2011
• Supreme Court Upholds Order to Slash California's Prison Population, Jacob Sullum, May 23, 2011
• If Prostitutes Are Slaves, How Can Punishing Them Be Just?, Jacob Sullum, May 10, 2011
• "Time to Take Prisons Seriously" or, The Secret History of the American Penitentiary, Nick Gillespie, May 5, 2011
• Oklahoma: America's Indonesia, Jacob Sullum, April 28, 2011
• DOJ Denies Marc Emery's Transfer Request, Jacob Sullum, April 27, 2011
• Jerry Brown's Vacation Gift to Prison Guards, Tim Cavanaugh, April 22, 2011
• The Bureau of Prisons Tries Some New Tricks, Brian Doherty, March 18, 2011
• The Salvia May Be Simulated, but the Bars Are Real, Jacob Sullum, March 16, 2011
• Drug Sentencing Reform in Kentucky, Jacob Sullum, March 10, 2011
• Prison Rape: Still a Problem. Government: Still Not All That Concerned About It., Radley Balko, March 9, 2011
• Texas Friendly Spoken to Illegals (as Long as They Work in Your House), Nick Gillespie, March 8, 2011
• Mitch Daniels' Disappearing Felony, Jacob Sullum, February 25, 2011
• Do You Care About Prosecution of Victimless Crimes & The Growing Prison Population?, Nick Gillespie, February 24, 2011
• 'Never in My Wildest Dreams Did I Consider That Money to Be a Kickback', Jacob Sullum, February 23, 2011
• Baby Stepping Toward a Better Prison System, Josh Brokaw, February 14, 2011
• The Simpsons, Skins, and Child Porn, Jacob Sullum, January 20, 2011
• Pat Robertson Wants to Decriminalize Pot, Jesse Walker, December 22, 2010
• Bradley Manning Alone, Jesse Walker, December 15, 2010
• Wesley Snipes: Acquitted, but Imprisoned for His Bad Attitude, Tim Cavanaugh, December 3, 2010