Criminal Justice

Policy

Prison Math

What are the costs and benefits of leading the world in locking up human beings?

Veronique de Rugy | 6.8.2011 1:30 PM

Policy

No Really: SWAT Team Raids House at 6 AM and Handcuffs Father of Three Young Kids to Execute a Dept. of Education Search Warrant for Estranged Wife's Defaulted Student Loans

Matt Welch | 6.8.2011 9:40 AM

Policy

Ends and Means

Suicide is not a medical procedure.

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Prison Guards Union Locks Up Benefits, Politicians, People

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.7.2011 7:23 PM

Policy

Michigan Jury Convicts 70-Year-Old Woman for Pot Possession

Mike Riggs | 6.7.2011 7:15 PM

Policy

Connecticut Decriminalizes Real Pot, Criminalizes Fake Pot

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2011 5:34 PM

Politics

Wrongful Convictions

How many innocent Americans are behind bars?

Radley Balko | 6.7.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Declare Defeat and Go Home

The War on Drugs has failed. Let's try something else.

A. Barton Hinkle | 6.7.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Shrink the Prisons

Conservatives are as wrong about prison overcrowding as liberals were about welfare reform.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.7.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Locked Up, Locked Out

The social costs of incarceration

Bruce Western | 6.6.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Edwards: I May Be a Lying Bastard, but I'm No Felon

Jacob Sullum | 6.6.2011 12:18 PM

Politics

The Ends Didn't Justify the Means

Our complicity in the devastating war on crime

Matt Welch | 6.6.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Growing Pot Remains a Felony in California

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2011 3:33 PM

Policy

Holder Wants to Limit Crack Sentence Reductions

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2011 3:19 PM

Policy

Against the Drug War, but Not Ready to Give Peace a Chance

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2011 12:41 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Conservative Response to the Supreme Court's Prison Crowding Decision

Reason Staff | 6.3.2011 12:10 PM

Policy

Helpful Advice (Indiana Edition)

Jesse Walker | 6.3.2011 11:57 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Says Pretending to Detain People As Material Witnesses Is Constitutional

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2011 1:45 PM

Policy

Flogging Prisoners--Better Than the Lousy System We've Got?

Matt Welch | 5.31.2011 9:01 AM

Politics

When Punishment Is a Crime

The Supreme Court takes on California's overcrowded prison system.

Steve Chapman | 5.30.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh, CBC Radio Say Eh to Prison Reform

Reason Staff | 5.28.2011 11:55 PM

Civil Liberties

Chinese Prisons Forcing Inmates to Mine Gold…Online?

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2011 8:02 AM

Policy

The FBI Cracks Down on Little Old Ladies With Plastic Bags

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2011 2:01 PM

Politics

Big Brother Is Watching You

Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.25.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Jared Lee Loughner Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 4:08 PM

Policy

Drug Offenders in California's Overcrowded Prisons

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 4:07 PM

Policy

Model Bill Would Revoke the State's License to Steal

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 3:17 PM

Politics

BHL Update: "Make the Howlers Shut Up"!

Matt Welch | 5.24.2011 2:53 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Upholds Order to Slash California's Prison Population

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 5:50 PM

Politics

The Supreme Court's Advice About the Fourth Amendment: Use It or Lose It

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 3:41 PM

Policy

Mandatory Panic Buttons Proposed for NY Hotel Chambermaids

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.23.2011 3:31 PM

Policy

Culture of Misconduct

The misplaced priorities of prosecutors

Ken White | 5.23.2011 7:17 AM

Policy

Radar Love

The changing status of the radar detector in a hyper-surveilled world

Greg Beato | 5.18.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

No Right to Resist Rogue Cops in Indiana

Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2011 11:12 AM

Politics

IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested on NYC [Attempted] Rape Charge

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.15.2011 2:52 AM

Politics

Texas House Deems the TSA's 'Proper Procedures' Criminal

Jacob Sullum | 5.13.2011 5:26 PM

Policy

The Opposite of a Nut-Punch

Jesse Walker | 5.13.2011 9:06 AM

Politics

False Forbearance

Obama breaks his promise to respect medical marijuana laws.

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

If Prostitutes Are Slaves, How Can Punishing Them Be Just?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2011 7:28 PM

Policy

Riding in Cars with Mexicans

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.10.2011 3:47 PM

Policy

Radley Balko Nominated for Columnist of the Year

Matt Welch | 5.10.2011 3:25 PM

Civil Liberties

"Time to Take Prisons Seriously" or, The Secret History of the American Penitentiary

Nick Gillespie | 5.5.2011 12:20 PM

Politics

Feds Threaten to Prosecute Medical Marijuana Providers 'Whose Actions Are in Clear and Unambiguous Compliance' With State Law

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2011 2:33 PM

Policy

Drug War Results, Part DXXIII

Jesse Walker | 5.4.2011 2:03 PM

Politics

Was Capturing Bin Laden Ever a Serious Option?

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2011 12:16 PM

Policy

Spray Paint the Walls

Does graffiti count as art?

Greg Beato | 4.29.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

When Donald Trump Didn't Need Proof

Radley Balko | 4.29.2011 11:17 AM

Policy

Oklahoma: America's Indonesia

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2011 5:16 PM