"There is an obligation both to incarcerated persons and the taxpayers not to keep someone incarcerated for longer than they should be," a Louisiana district attorney said. "Timely release is not only a legal obligation, but arguably of equal importance, a moral obligation."
A $2.1 million penalty for failing to file a form on time reveals the agency’s true nature.
Priscilla Villarreal's case will be heard again tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She has attracted some unlikely supporters.
"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.
"We can't be in a situation where one person can just derail this," DeSantis told a gathering of law enforcement officials.
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"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.
If Trump's handling of government secrets was "totally irresponsible," how should we describe Biden's conduct?
Should an elderly grandmother be forced to hand over millions of dollars to the government for failing to file a particular form?
The U.S. Sentencing Commission might make medical neglect a qualifying condition for compassionate release.
Philadelphia's progressive district attorney tried to enact criminal justice reform—and got impeached for his trouble.
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.
"In short, the controlling motivations for the suspension were the interest in bringing down a reform prosecutor," the judge wrote.
Thousands of local, state, and federal law-enforcers have access to sensitive financial data.
Justice Department regulations threaten people with prosecution for failing to register even when their state no longer requires it.
Body camera footage shows precisely why some people don’t trust police to respond appropriately to nonviolent incidents.
The Supreme Court takes up “true threats” and the First Amendment in Counterman v. Colorado.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler's case challenging home equity theft.
It may sound bizarre, but yes, you can be punished at sentencing for an offense you were acquitted of by a jury.
"They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks," says the boy's father. "That's absolutely insane."
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The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
Minnesota law allowed Hennepin County to seize a $40,000 home owned by a 93-year-old widow to pay off a $15,000 tax debt.
Part of a law that authorizes warrantless snooping is about to expire, opening up a opportunity to better protect our privacy rights.
Any unjustified killing by the government demands public attention. But fatal shootings by police used to be much more common.
"My daughter rushed to the car and she's like, 'mommy DCFS came to the school, and the lady made it sound like we weren't going to come home with you today,'" Tresa Razaaq told a local news station.
Federal sentences for simple marijuana possession dropped by 93 percent over seven years.
A last-minute injunction gets tossed, allowing the state to give Robert Fratta a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
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Because of a misdemeanor welfare fraud conviction, Bryan Range is no longer allowed to own guns.
In both cases, proving criminal intent would be a tall order.
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."
On Thursday, the South Carolina Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case that could see the state's attempt to execute inmates by electrocution or firing squad declared unconstitutional.
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
Irvington made national headlines last year when it filed a lawsuit against an 82-year-old woman for filing too many public records requests. Now it says a lawyer for FIRE should be prosecuted.
Intelligence-gathering “fusion centers” repeatedly abuse civil liberties without making us safer.
Officers piled on top of a cuffed Akeem Terrell after he was arrested for acting erratically at a party, and later found him pulseless and facedown in an isolation cell.
