Criminal Justice

Politics

Constitutionally Dangerous

A preventive detention law shows why we need to confine Congress.

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

Oh, You Mean Those Quotas

The NYPD stop-and-frisk controversy grows.

Radley Balko | 5.17.2010 5:30 PM

Politics

Pre-Crime Detention Based on Enumerated (Yet Curiously Unspecified) Powers

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2010 2:24 PM

Policy

Smoke a Joint, Get Arrested for Drugged Driving a Week Later

Jacob Sullum | 5.13.2010 12:44 PM

Policy

Prince of Pot to Be Extradited

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2010 1:38 PM

Policy

More on Tonya Craft Acquittal: 'It Wasn't a Victory'

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2010 1:19 PM

Policy

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Top 10

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2010 6:58 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Acquitted

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2010 6:01 PM

Politics

What Would Joe Lieberman's Terrorist Expatriation Act Accomplish?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2010 3:20 PM

Politics

"She is certainly a fan of presidential power."

Radley Balko | 5.10.2010 7:15 AM

Politics

Hate Crimes for Homeless

Matt Welch | 5.7.2010 10:35 AM

Politics

Lieberman's Terrorist Expatriation Act

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2010 1:53 PM

Politics

Lieberman: Terrorists Don't Deserve Citizenship

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2010 11:09 AM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Inept Interviewers,' 'Shoddy Investigation'

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2010 1:23 PM

Policy

Arrest Everybody

Arizona encourages police to emulate "the toughest sheriff in America."

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

If You're Going to Arizona, Be Sure to Have a Passport in Your Car

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2010 5:09 PM

Policy

Now Appearing in Oklahoma: Arizona's Immigration Law

Radley Balko | 5.4.2010 12:32 PM

Policy

New York Governor to Help Legal Residents Avoid Deportation for Minor Crimes

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2010 10:47 AM

Policy

Reason Writers on TV: Radley Balko Discusses Asset Forfeiture With John Stossel

Reason Staff | 5.3.2010 3:02 PM

Policy

Porn Star Saves Man From Incompetent Prosecutor, Dubious "Experts"

Radley Balko | 5.3.2010 2:46 PM

Policy

Isn't Bloomberg Proud of His Pot Crackdown?

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2010 11:33 AM

Policy

Today on Tonya Craft

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2010 4:40 PM

Policy

How Charlie Lynch Got a One-Year Sentence for a Crime That Injured No One

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2010 6:33 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: How 'Normal' Becomes 'Very Suspicious'

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2010 3:30 PM

Policy

Another Forensics Competency Test; More Bad News

Radley Balko | 4.23.2010 8:14 AM

Policy

"I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything."

Radley Balko | 4.22.2010 4:34 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Wasn't That a Suggestive Question?' 'So What?'

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2010 5:59 PM

Policy

Getting Away With Poker

How is helping people play a card game like murder?

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

Fabulous Fab's Backup Band: Goldman Bigshots Approved Abacus Deal

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.20.2010 7:27 PM

Politics

Brown Water and Red Ink In the Yellowhammer State

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.19.2010 12:25 AM

Politics

First They Came for the Criminal Investment Bankers…

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.18.2010 5:20 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Mom Said I Could Get a Toy If I Talked to You'

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2010 3:06 PM

Politics

Consensus Liberalism Was the Root Cause of Daryl Gates

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2010 2:48 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft's Alleged Victim Reports How She Remembered Abuse: 'My Momma Told Me'

Jacob Sullum | 4.15.2010 5:21 PM

Policy

Kindergarten Teacher's Accuser: 'I Just Remembered'

Jacob Sullum | 4.14.2010 7:03 PM

Politics

The Case for Privatizing California's Prisons

They'll cut state costs and save taxpayer dollars.

Leonard Gilroy and Jon Coupal | 4.14.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

Justice John Paul Stevens' Mixed Record on Civil Liberties

Stevens wasn't the civil libertarian he's made out to be, but his retirement will still leave the Court more deferential to government power.

Radley Balko | 4.12.2010 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

IJ Files Asset Forfeiture Suit in Texas

Radley Balko | 4.9.2010 1:36 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Cutting California's Prison Costs

Reason Staff | 4.9.2010 11:10 AM

Policy

Rational Bias in Forensics

Radley Balko | 4.8.2010 2:08 PM

Politics

Gun Controllers Need Not Fear 'Intermediate Scrutiny'

Jacob Sullum | 4.7.2010 4:32 PM

Politics

Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Country

Rigid deportation rules make a mockery of justice.

Jacob Sullum | 4.7.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 4.2.2010 8:55 AM

Policy

M.S. Patient Gets Five Years for Medicinal Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2010 2:07 PM

Policy

Survive an Earthquake or Plead to a Misdemeanor, Go to Jail Indefinitely

Matt Welch | 4.1.2010 11:18 AM