Journalists Create a Database to Track Bad New Jersey Cops
The state doesn't track use-of-force incidents, so NJ.com did its own research.
The state doesn't track use-of-force incidents, so NJ.com did its own research.
Plus: CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill for Palestine comments and the link between life expectancy declines, opioid pills, and prohibition.
The mayor claims it's a "public safety" issue.
Plus: good signs in Supreme Court case on asset forfeiture and Ashley Judd talks prostitution.
But not according Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer elicited a shocking response during Wednesday's oral argument in a big civil asset forfeiture case.
Legislators in Trenton plan to address past pot convictions while preventing future ones.
Jessica Ortega repeatedly told deputies that her boyfriend threatened to kill her. She died following their negligence.
The Court seems very likely to rule that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment applies to state governments, and that at least some asset forfeitures violate the Clause. Potentially a big win for property rights and civil liberties.
The Supreme Court should make it clear that state forfeitures are constrained by the Excessive Fines Clause.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a recommendation to relieve him of execution.
Some people don't belong behind bars. This celebrity-launched criminal justice reform group wants to free them.
Emantic Bradford Jr. may have had a gun. But he didn't deserve to die.
Roughly 800 federal inmates are sentenced to life under an obscure sentencing enhancement that lawmakers in Congress might soon vote to reduce.
The Texas senator is now allied with longtime opponents of reform in resisting the FIRST STEP Act.
The case both addresses important legal issues, and could have substantial practical implications.
They say it's about due process. Is it really about all that sweet overtime money?
The modest changes in the FIRST STEP Act are no threat to public safety.
Supporters are concerned about the bill's future if it doesn't pass this year.
A law signed in August will eliminate cash bail entirely in the Golden State, and quite a few jobs in the process.
It's harder now for law enforcement officials to conceal what happened in deadly encounters with citizens.
Assessing the import of presidential tantrums, media hyperbole, military complaints, and the near-arrival of federal sentencing reform
The two jurists dissent from denial of certiorari in Stuart v. Alabama.
The Arizona Supreme Court got it right: categorical denials of bail to persons charged with sexual assault violates the Constitution.
My case involving Weldon Angelos illustrates the problem with "stacking" federal mandatory minimum gun charges from a single episode. The statute will apparently soon be amended to become a true recidivism statute.
Plus: lawmakers move to allow headscarves on the Hill and private landlords protect from lead better than city Health Department.
Cases in which a majority of the Court fell down on the job.
Showtime recreates infamous 2015 caper from upstate New York.
That could be dangerous for the policy's chances of success, as has been the case on other key policy issues during the Trump era.
Plus: the NRA versus New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and CNN versus the White House
Bad policing is costly in more ways than one.
At a celebrity-headlined and media-focused summit on incarceration, the speakers recognize their allies.
How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
Justice Anthony Kennedy's bogus 2002 claim figures prominently in defenses of an Arizona bail ban.
"We're all better off when former inmates can reenter society as law-abiding, productive citizens."
Police, however, still shift away responsibility for killing unarmed, innocent Wichita man.
So far, the world is kind of listening. Q&A with the co-host of The Fifth Column and co-founder of Freethink Media.
1,000 more agencies submitted data in 2017 vs. 2016, which could account for much of the increase.
"Everybody was screaming out, 'Security!' He was a security guard."
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
My co-authored amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to review the issue of whether Arizona can deny bail to accused sex offenders where "proof" of sexual assault "is evident or the presumption great."
California's licensing laws mean inmates can risk their lives for less than $2 per day, but can't earn a living after they get out of prison.
What did it take? A promise not to make mandatory minimum reductions retroactive.
And a state lawmaker says criminal justice reform bills are already on the way.
Sessions was a staunch critic of consent decrees that forced police departments to reform unconstitutional practices.
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