Criminal Justice

Policy

Clemency on Trial

Most governors grant clemency for the wrong reasons. Here's what coverage of the Huckabee/Clemons case is missing.

Radley Balko | 12.8.2009 12:00 PM

Policy

Cash-Strapped Police Departments Find New Source of Revenue: Stealing!

Radley Balko | 12.4.2009 4:22 PM

Policy

State Medical Marijuana Acquittal in San Diego

Jacob Sullum | 12.4.2009 3:13 PM

Policy

Reading People's Faces

Tattoos, dueling scars, and other rational acquisitions

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.3.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

The Continuing Drama of the Document-Swiping Deputy

Radley Balko | 12.3.2009 1:21 PM

Policy

How a Business Becomes a Racket

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2009 6:23 PM

Policy

Isn't "Terroristic Mischief" a Contradiction in Terms?

Radley Balko | 12.2.2009 4:26 PM

Policy

As Employment Falls, So Does Crime

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2009 4:03 PM

Policy

Polanski Condemned For a Crime He Admits to Committing, Must Now Tough It Out in Alpine Chalet

Nick Gillespie | 12.2.2009 1:55 PM

Politics

The Drama Builds in Marikafka County

Radley Balko | 12.1.2009 12:01 PM

Policy

Federal Judge Says NYPD Plagued by "Widespread Falsification by Arresting Officers"

Radley Balko | 12.1.2009 11:37 AM

Policy

A New Alliance for Criminal Justice Reform? Don't Count On It.

Why talk of a left-right alliance to fight the prosecution state seems unlikely.

Radley Balko | 11.30.2009 4:00 PM

Policy

Showdown in Marikafka County

Radley Balko | 11.30.2009 3:11 PM

Politics

Napolitano's Case Against Military Tribunals

Matt Welch | 11.30.2009 11:53 AM

Politics

How Can You Lose Your Second Amendment Rights?

Jacob Sullum | 11.25.2009 3:51 PM

Politics

Pennsylvania Judges Get Partial Immunity in 'Kids for Cash' Case

Jacob Sullum | 11.25.2009 12:53 PM

Politics

Obama Pardon Tally: Flightless Fowl 1, Human Beings 0

Radley Balko | 11.25.2009 12:30 PM

Policy

I Had to Quash the Debate in Order to Save It

Jacob Sullum | 11.24.2009 6:56 PM

Policy

Where Is the Real Ed Meese, and Why Are You Wearing His Clothes?

Radley Balko | 11.24.2009 3:36 PM

Policy

Another Broken Myth: Foreclosures and Crime Rates

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.23.2009 5:35 PM

Policy

A New Trial for Cory Maye

Mississippi's Court of Appeals affirms a right to a local jury.

Radley Balko | 11.23.2009 4:00 PM

Policy

Innocence Roundup

Radley Balko | 11.23.2009 11:30 AM

Policy

Sheriff Joe's New Low

Radley Balko | 11.23.2009 10:00 AM

Policy

How to Get Ahead in Law

Bernard Baran served 22 years on dubious child molestation charges, but the prosecutor who convicted him was promoted to judge.

Radley Balko | 11.20.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Marikafka County, Arizona: Now With More Kafka!

Radley Balko | 11.19.2009 11:31 AM

Politics

Mary Beth Buchanan Finally Quits; Regrets Not Having Been Even Douchier

Radley Balko | 11.19.2009 10:36 AM

Policy

How Could He Have Strangled Her Without a Permit to Carry a Handgun?

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2009 12:38 PM

Policy

"It Opened Our Eyes"

How the paths of two very different families crossed to cheer the release of a wrongly convicted man.

Radley Balko | 11.16.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Don't Bother Defending Yourself in Maine New Hampshire

Radley Balko | 11.16.2009 11:02 AM

Policy

Hasan Had a Carry Permit (and Other Irrelevancies)

Jacob Sullum | 11.13.2009 2:31 PM

Policy

Hair Nets and Riot Gear

Radley Balko | 11.13.2009 2:24 PM

Policy

Maddow Joins Media Matters in Cheap Smear of Heritage Overcriminalization Project

Radley Balko | 11.12.2009 11:24 AM

Politics

Police Defend, Lie About Devices That Extract Money From and Cause Bodily Harm to Citizens

Matt Welch | 11.11.2009 5:56 PM

Policy

Traffic Ticket to the Exciting World of Ratting on Violent Criminals

Jacob Sullum | 11.11.2009 12:04 PM

Policy

The Folly of Unilateral Disarmament

At Fort Hood "more guns" assuredly were "the solution to gun violence."

Jacob Sullum | 11.11.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

John Allen Muhammad And The Death Penalty Challenge

Nick Gillespie | 11.10.2009 9:44 PM

Politics

Feds Order News Site to Cough up User Data

Matt Welch | 11.10.2009 6:44 PM

Policy

Mississippi Cardiologist Won't Go to Prison for Online Dating

Radley Balko | 11.10.2009 4:52 PM

Policy

Some Officers of Their Own

Jesse Walker | 11.10.2009 9:52 AM

Policy

Media Matters Slams Heritage for Being Soft on Crime

Radley Balko | 11.9.2009 5:27 PM

Politics

Absolute Immunity on Trial

Bush's former solicitor general tries to roll back prosecutorial abuse.

Radley Balko | 11.9.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: GDR Memorial Edition

Jesse Walker | 11.9.2009 8:06 AM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: ObamaCare, the PATRIOT Act, a Climate Bill, and More

Jesse Walker | 11.6.2009 8:17 AM

Policy

What Do Pot Arrests Accomplish?

Jacob Sullum | 11.5.2009 5:20 PM

Policy

The Monkeys vs. the Red-Light Machines

Matt Welch | 11.5.2009 8:05 AM

Politics

The Myth of the Infallible Police Dog

Jacob Sullum | 11.4.2009 4:10 PM

Policy

Welcome to Marikafka County, Arizona

Radley Balko | 11.3.2009 5:39 PM

Policy

Race and America's "Shameful Prisons"

Damon Root | 11.2.2009 3:19 PM