Federal, state, and local officials will always threaten to weaponize the state against private actors they don't like. The "Kia Challenge" provides the latest example.
"The firing squad, in my opinion, is beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho," said one state senator. "We have to find a better way."
An important and compelling new book on qualified immunity and other obstacles to holding law enforcement officers accountable for rights violations.
Three years after "15 days to slow the spread," things almost look like they're back to normal. But they're not.
"What I saw today was heartbreaking," said the victim's mother. "It was disturbing, it was traumatic. My son was tortured."
New bills in six states showcase some right and wrong ways to help sex workers, from full decriminalization to ramping up penalties for prostitution customers.
The former head of the NYPD and the LAPD talks about how bad leadership creates police brutality and why he's still against pot legalization.
Mayor Eric Adams frets that COVID-19 masks are making it too easy for shoplifters to evade facial recognition.
Judges and prosecutors accused James and Jennifer Crumbley of negligent behavior despite the fact that school officials at the time reached many of the same judgments.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET for a discussion with former New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton about the new documentary "Gotham."
"Lifetime registries are wrong," said the plaintiff's attorney. "They're wrong based on the science and they're wrong based on the reality that risk is not static. It is dynamic."
In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.
Twenty years ago, the justices deemed registration nonpunitive, accepting unsubstantiated assumptions about its benefits and blithely dismissing its costs.
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
Police have not yet determined whether the suspect was armed at the time of the shooting.
The families argue that they should have been given an opportunity to confer with prosecutors under the Crime Victims' Rights Act before Boeing's deferred prosecution agreement was finalized.
"This is a fundamental statement of morality, of what's right and wrong," Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday. "And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue."
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
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The state's "arbitrary requirement to house all male death row prisoners in permanent solitary confinement does not promote safety and security, is inconsistent with correctional best practices, and serves no penological purpose," the lawsuit claims.
"It's time to address the fact that this is a system that needs better oversight on numerous fronts," Gov. Katie Hobbs said in a Friday press release.
"Sometimes I even feel like they wanted me in there, because I was in there so long," said one 18-year-old who was wrongfully incarcerated for 166 days.
The actor is a polarizing figure. That shouldn't matter when evaluating the criminal case against him.
"Under the new rule, the State would have been able to prolong the botched execution process indefinitely," the Equal Justice Initiative wrote in a press release.
Thousands of local, state, and federal law-enforcers have access to sensitive financial data.
Any unjustified killing by the government demands public attention. But fatal shootings by police used to be much more common.
A last-minute injunction gets tossed, allowing the state to give Robert Fratta a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
A North Carolina detective may have inhaled a significant amount during a drug bust.
Justice Richard Bernstein said Pete Martel's hiring as clerk was unacceptable because "I'm intensely pro-law enforcement."
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
Today's scheduled execution is getting attention because she's trans. But the bigger story here is how she was sentenced to die.
While rising crime created headwinds for candidates who supported criminal justice reform, the apocalyptic storm never quite arrived.
"The most valuable thing taken away while in prison is time," says the author of Corrections in Ink.
Fortunately, government kills fewer prisoners each year.
Enforcing all the laws, all the time.
Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.
Healthy cities are a boon not just for those who live in them, but for our entire society.
The Richmond City Council unanimously approved a resolution to study applying tougher zoning restrictions to new shops as a way of cutting down on crime.
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