Criminal Justice
Should We Treat Juvenile Defendants as Adult Criminals?
Two cases from Virginia raise troubling questions.
Should Expectant Moms Who Test Positive For Drugs Go to Jail?
Tennessee's law criminalizing drug use during pregnancy arbitrarily heaps punishment on reviled women.
Update: Virginia Cops Abandon Plan to Coercively Photograph Nude Teen's Erection
With any hope, perhaps coverage of this madness will embarrass the authorities into dropping the case entirely.
New Orleans Ex-Mayor Nagin's Katrina Cash-In Nets 10 Years in Prison
Found guilty of 20 charges of bribery and corruption
Cops Want to Give Teen an Erection and Photograph It… You Know, For Evidence
Good grief, how many pictures of a teenage boy's penis does one police department need?
Not Charged: Cop Who Killed 13 Year Old Because the Kid Had a Pellet Gun
What comes of a shoot-first approach to law enforcement.
Why Won't California Release Innocent Men from Prison?
Gov. Jerry Brown has the power to exonerate them, but he won't use it.
Don't You Dare Criticize Officers For Shooting Dogs, Whines SLC Top Cop
Maybe animals that can't speak for themselves evoke greater sympathy than men, women, and children--though not from the pompous cops that abuse them.
