Criminal Justice

Politics

The Disappearing Blood Stain

How New Orleans prosecutors nearly killed a man by withholding evidence

Jacob Sullum | 3.31.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

The Persecution of Nada Prouty

Radley Balko | 3.30.2010 1:51 PM

Civil Liberties

The Institute for Justice Takes on Asset Forfeiture

Radley Balko | 3.30.2010 9:32 AM

Policy

Progress and Challenges in Mississippi

Disgraced medical examiner Steven Hayne's career appears to be over, but the state has much more work to do.

Radley Balko | 3.29.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Why Don't More Cops Go to the Videotape?

It's time to equip police cars with video cameras.

Steve Chapman | 3.25.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Will Hear Another Prosecutorial Misconduct Case (and May Even Get to Rule This Time)

Jacob Sullum | 3.23.2010 5:32 PM

Policy

Hank Skinner Scheduled for Execution Tomorrow

Radley Balko | 3.23.2010 3:22 PM

Policy

Blunting the Blunt Menace

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2010 3:29 PM

Politics

George Skumanick's Provocative Pose

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2010 1:04 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Mandatory ID Cards, Mandatory Publication Delays, Mandatory Condoms

Jesse Walker | 3.19.2010 8:07 AM

Policy

Senate Approves Bill to Shrink the Crack Gap

Jacob Sullum | 3.18.2010 2:56 PM

Policy

And LSD Accounts for 93 Percent of Falling Deaths

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2010 5:05 PM

Politics

Reason Nominated for Seven "Maggie" Awards

Matt Welch | 3.16.2010 4:20 PM

Policy

Feds' Online Snooping Reveals Evidence of Crimes, Possibly Including Their Own

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2010 4:01 PM

Policy

Marijuana Decriminalization Advances

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2010 5:32 PM

Policy

Good News From Mississippi

Radley Balko | 3.11.2010 10:50 AM

Policy

USA Today Notes 'Growing Popular Acceptance' of Pot

Jacob Sullum | 3.9.2010 4:56 PM

Policy

The Other Broken Windows Fallacy

The NYPD is accused of under-reporting serious crimes while manufacturing petty ones.

Radley Balko | 3.8.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Better Than Releasing People Who Don't Belong in Prison: Not Putting Them There to Begin With

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2010 3:19 PM

Politics

Put That Thing Away!

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2010 11:32 AM

Politics

Put Up a Sign, Go to Jail (With Million Dollar Bail)

Brian Doherty | 3.5.2010 4:03 PM

Policy

Decriminalize, Double Seizures, Whatever

Jacob Sullum | 3.3.2010 11:29 AM

Policy

What This Crime Problem Needs Is Another List

Radley Balko | 3.2.2010 5:47 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Drops Uighur Detainee Case

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2010 11:47 AM

Civil Liberties

Anthony Smelley Will Get His Money Back

Radley Balko | 2.26.2010 12:44 PM

Policy

Satanic Panic and the West Memphis Three

Damon Root | 2.25.2010 10:19 AM

Policy

Weaponizing Mozart

How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control

Brendan O'Neill | 2.24.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Houston's Illegal Immigrants Get One More Reason Not to Talk to Cops

Ben Sanders | 2.23.2010 5:02 PM

Politics

Judge Alex Kozinski: The Fourth Amendment is Gone. "Welcome to the fish bowl."

Damon Root | 2.23.2010 3:29 PM

Policy

Colorado D.A. Invokes Novel 'Prostitots' Legal Theory to Explain Away Unfavorable DNA Test Results

Radley Balko | 2.23.2010 3:12 PM

Politics

Clemency Under Fire

A parolee turned cop killer sparks an ill-informed debate about pardons and commutations.

Radley Balko | 2.23.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Guns: Not Just for the Home Anymore

Brian Doherty | 2.22.2010 5:31 PM

Policy

Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?

State officials would rather kill a prisoner than give him a DNA test.

Radley Balko | 2.22.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Man Got Eight Years for Deaths From Accelerating Toyota

Radley Balko | 2.22.2010 1:50 PM

Policy

Immigration and Crime

There's nothing to fear from illegal immigrants

Steve Chapman | 2.22.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 2.18.2010 3:06 PM

Policy

Taxpayers Underwrite Prosecutors' Negligence; Negligent Prosecutors Get Promoted

Radley Balko | 2.17.2010 2:27 PM

Politics

Was That Colorado Pot Grower Complying With State Law? Does It Matter?

Jacob Sullum | 2.16.2010 7:39 PM

Civil Liberties

Not Safe for Prison

Jesse Walker | 2.12.2010 5:48 PM

Politics

Obama's Pardon Drought Continues

Radley Balko | 2.11.2010 1:17 PM

Policy

Santa Clara DA Boycotts Judge Who Ruled Against Her

Radley Balko | 2.9.2010 4:07 PM

Policy

How Many More Are Innocent?

America's 250th DNA exoneration raises questions about how often we send the wrong person to prison.

Radley Balko | 2.8.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Law Enforcement and DWI Roundup

Radley Balko | 2.8.2010 2:16 PM

Civil Liberties

Reason Writers Around Town: Radley Balko on Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws for Slate

Reason Staff | 2.5.2010 1:18 PM

Policy

The 250th DNA Exoneration

Radley Balko | 2.4.2010 2:04 PM

Policy

The Other War That Isn't Covered by Obama's Spending Freeze

Jacob Sullum | 2.4.2010 1:10 PM

Policy

Trial by Ordeal

The surprising accuracy of the Dark Ages' trial by fire rituals

Radley Balko | 2.1.2010 4:30 PM