Mississippi Sheriff Insists He Was Oblivious to His Drug Warriors' Long Pattern of Brutality
Years before a federal case shined a light on the problem, Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey should have known something was amiss.
Years before a federal case shined a light on the problem, Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey should have known something was amiss.
The regulation is part of a suite of new restrictions on hotels sought by the local hotel workers union.
“I couldn’t believe it was my baby,” Amanda Bews' mother said. "She looked like she was mummified."
Moral panic plus government power is an inescapably potent combination.
The Supreme Court mulls how to apply a mandatory minimum for gun possession by people convicted of drug felonies.
From March 2021 to July 2023, 74 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured in vehicle chases occurring in counties affected by Operation Lone Star.
Officers barged into their house without a warrant, shot their dog, and mocked them, a federal civil rights lawsuit says.
In separate criminal racketeering cases, prosecutors are using rap lyrics and the personal diary of a protester shot and killed by police as evidence.
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NYPD radio frequencies have been open to the public since 1932. A new encrypted system will end that.
A D.C. Circuit judge says the government’s defense of the order gives short shrift to "the First Amendment’s vigorous protection of political speech."
He is not the first defendant that has struggled to reconcile the controversial raids with self-defense.
Wayne County was seizing cars and using its less-fortunate residents as piggy banks.
It appears that DEA agents have been employed on non-drug-related investigations for far longer than they were originally authorized.
The mere act of publishing sex ads online is enough to send most potential free speech allies scurrying for the exits.
Maybe Brett Hankison shouldn't have been found not guilty, but he was. The Constitution says it should stop there.
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.
Host Liz Flock delivers a compelling narrative but misses chances to interrogate the justice system.
"Alabama law sets the age of majority at 19 years old, not 18 years. An 18-year-old is thus a minor," say Casey McWhorter's lawyers.
Deja Taylor is going to federal prison because of a constitutionally dubious gun law that millions of cannabis consumers are violating right now.
Adam Nesteikis didn't even understand what he had done wrong.
"A lot of people on the registry are on there for consensual behavior, things I think many people agree shouldn’t be crimes," says Meaghan Ybos, the president of Women Against Registry.
The case highlights the broad reach of a federal law that bans firearm possession by people with nonviolent criminal records.
Elisabeth Rehn was about to take a bath when police officers kicked down her door, flooded into her apartment, and pointed their guns at her.
No amount of encampment sweeps and pressure-washing sidewalks is going to solve the problem of thousands of people living on the streets.
Children held in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center are routinely subjected to solitary confinement, inadequate meals, and filthy cells, according to legal documents.
Lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia fought over which state should house the new site rather than whether the bureau even needs so many agents.
"I believe in empowering the individual and limited government. I chose to become a Libertarian on my registration because it spoke to who I was."
That prosecutors in the Hoosier State successfully denied people this due process is a reflection of how abusive civil forfeiture can be.
In an apparent case of retaliation by humiliation, Jerry Rogers Jr. was arrested for speaking out about a stalled murder investigation.
The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar falsely claims a federal gun ban "requires individualized findings of dangerousness."
Almost 10 years after his arrest, Marvin Guy will soon learn if he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently showed off the autonomous security robot the city is piloting.
The Bureau of Prisons released more than 12,000 people on home confinement during the pandemic. Three years later, Republicans want to overturn a Justice Department rule allowing those still serving sentences to stay home.
My new co-authored article reviews 168 victim impact statements from the Larry Nassar sentencing hearing and concludes that these statements show a victim voice at sentencing can improve justice.
"I asked them to show me a warrant; they didn't show me nothing," a grandmother said.
A 9-year-old lab mix wandered away from home during a storm. When a neighbor called the police to help find the dog's family, cops shot the pup instead.