His Father Was Murdered. He Helped End the Death Penalty Anyway.
“I wanted to be more than somebody who is the son of a murder victim.”
“I wanted to be more than somebody who is the son of a murder victim.”
It's not illegal for inmates to have marijuana, but it's still a felony if they try to smoke it.
New technologies mean new crimesolving techniques—and new threats to privacy and liberty.
People charged—but not convicted—of crimes often have to wait weeks to see a judge if they’re too poor to pay for their freedom.
A small city in California has been plagued by police shootings, costly civil rights lawsuits, and incidents of excessive force.
The debate about whether the killer should have been prosecuted for federal hate crimes shows how the Justice Department targets defendants based on the opinions they express.
A new study by the Institute for Justice says federal asset forfeiture funds have little to no impact on solving crimes, suggesting police are more interested in the revenue it generates
On average, crack offenders who have benefited from the FIRST STEP Act will serve 14 years instead of 20.
A new audit reveals how poor oversight and structural problems allowed one Oakland cop to earn $2.5 million in overtime pay in five years.
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Depends on how much of the face it covers, the California Court of Appeal seems to suggest.
The civil liberties giant defends a law professor who took on Harvey Weinstein as a client.
Mike Chase, the man behind the popular @CrimeADay Twitter feed, on his new book, How to Become a Federal Criminal
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A Pennsylvania mom faces reckless endangerment charges for assuming her children—ages 2, 5, and 7—could survive a very short wait.
It took 39 hours for every child to be reunited with their parents.
The criminal charges against the former Broward County sheriff's deputy for failing to intervene in the Parkland shooting seem like a stretch.
During the 1970s, an FBI crime lab analyzed a purported sample of Bigfoot hair.
Don't worry, a spokesman tells Congress, the agency has "strict policies" for using facial recognition technology.
'We know what we want to do with our bodies, and we don't need government interference.'
The move is an assault on the First Amendment.
Paul Manafort isn’t deserving of torture. Neither was Kalief Browder.
Alabama is one of the least transparent states in the U.S. when it comes to civil asset forfeiture. That could be changing.
The most hilarious overpolicing story you'll hear this week, on the latest Fifth Column podcast
Texas law lets police hide records of suspects who die in custody from grieving families. It could have been fixed, but a police union torpedoed the reform bill.
The NYPD failed to update its crime-tracking system—and underreported rape by 38 percent.
The researchers found no statistically significant relationship between testing positive for THC and contributing to accidents.
The jail, which saw several deaths, was overseen by former Sheriff David Clarke at the time.
New York legislators also are taking another shot at legalization.
State lawmakers reached across the aisle for a bipartisan push against capital punishment.
A finding of guilt would be an attack on the autonomy and self-ownership of all young people
The Trump appointee warns that "little would be left of our First Amendment liberties" if cops could punish people who irk them by finding a legal reason to bust them.
The treatment of Bryan Carmody and Julian Assange reveals widespread confusion about who counts as a journalist and whether it matters.
The chief and the union square off over who arranged what was likely an illegal search.
The new law rests on unsupported premises and vague language to penalize a victimless crime.
Child services called because Holly Curry let her kids wait in the car while she bought a muffin.
If only you could use parentheses in English the way you can in math or computer programming.