Criminal Justice

Policy

Nifong Nifonged

Will one bad man take the fall?

Jeff Taylor | 6.14.2007 12:10 PM

Policy

Is Refusing to Impose an Unreasonable Sentence Reasonable?

Jacob Sullum | 6.13.2007 11:40 AM

Policy

Watching the Watchers

Radley Balko | 6.12.2007 2:42 PM

Civil Liberties

Genarlow Wilson Freed

Radley Balko | 6.11.2007 1:22 PM

Policy

Is the Death Penalty a Deterrent?

Nick Gillespie | 6.11.2007 7:38 AM

Civil Liberties

The Fall of Bork

Brian Doherty | 6.8.2007 5:51 PM

Politics

Scooter in the Clink

Nick Gillespie | 6.5.2007 1:19 PM

Policy

Should State Executioners Be I.D.'ed?

Nick Gillespie | 6.5.2007 7:47 AM

Policy

Where's the McBeef?

Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2007 3:13 PM

Politics

How China Watches the Drug Watchers

Nick Gillespie | 5.29.2007 9:16 AM

Policy

Crackbrained Crack Crackdown

There's no rational basis for the federal government's cocaine sentencing policy

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2007 6:40 AM

Policy

Justice Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.21.2007 10:42 AM

Policy

The Great E-Gold Robbery

Brian Doherty | 5.15.2007 2:18 PM

Policy

What's Hate Got to Do With It?

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2007 10:00 AM

Policy

Adrift in a Sea of Middle-Aged White Guys

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2007 7:51 PM

Policy

Morte Alla Francia, Italia Anela!

Jesse Walker | 5.9.2007 12:38 PM

Civil Liberties

The Careful Legislator

Radley Balko | 5.9.2007 7:57 AM

Policy

Looking for Hate in All the Wrong Places

The federal hate crime bill is unnecessary, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2007 6:11 AM

Policy

Nifong Nation

Botched prosecutions go far beyond the borders of Durham

Radley Balko | 5.7.2007 12:32 PM

Policy

The Racial Profiling Myth Lives On

Why no one gets arrested for "driving while black"

Steve Chapman | 5.7.2007 6:33 AM

Civil Liberties

The Keys To Anamosa State Penitentiary Are for Sale…

Nick Gillespie | 5.3.2007 8:51 AM

Policy

Prisons Aren't Our Only Prisons

Brian Doherty | 5.2.2007 9:37 PM

Policy

E-Gold Tarnished by Feds

Brian Doherty | 4.30.2007 7:47 PM

Policy

"Shaken Baby Syndrome:" All Shook Up?

Radley Balko | 4.30.2007 11:33 AM

Policy

No Motive in Va Tech Shooting

Nick Gillespie | 4.25.2007 9:52 AM

Policy

200th Wrongly Imprisoned Man Freed by DNA

Radley Balko | 4.24.2007 5:21 PM

Policy

Alexander Cockburn Has a Posse

Brian Doherty | 4.23.2007 11:47 AM

Policy

If Only Virginia Were More Like New York

Jacob Sullum | 4.20.2007 11:31 AM

Policy

Cho Seung-Hui and Psychiatric Incompetence

Jacob Sullum | 4.19.2007 10:35 AM

Policy

Defense Needs DNA, Too

Freeing forensic science from the pressures of prosecutorial bias

Roger Koppl | 4.18.2007 3:06 PM

Policy

"When People Think 'Worst School Massacre in American History,' I Want Them to Think of Our Company"

Brian Doherty | 4.18.2007 3:04 PM

Civil Liberties

Assault Behind Bars

How big a problem is prison rape -- and what can be done about it?

Cathy Young | 4.18.2007 12:01 PM

Crime

In An Astonishing Coincidence, This Breaking Story Appears to Validate Everything I Believe

Jesse Walker | 4.18.2007 9:17 AM

Policy

The Gun Ban and the Gunman

Virginia Tech's gun-free zone left Cho Seung-Hui's victims defenseless.

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2007 6:24 AM

Policy

If Only the Killer Had Better Firearms Training

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2007 1:44 PM

Policy

A Blacksburg Thought

Jeff Taylor | 4.17.2007 8:58 AM

Policy

Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, an Illegal Immigrant?

Brian Doherty | 4.12.2007 10:36 PM

Policy

Roy Cooper Steps Up

Jeff Taylor | 4.11.2007 3:25 PM

Policy

Bums

Why there are no "happy hobos"

Peter Bagge | 4.4.2007 12:59 PM

Politics

City of Bruised Shoulders

Radley Balko | 3.29.2007 10:31 AM

Policy

PERFerted Crime Statistics

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2007 2:28 PM

Policy

Eating Our Children

Radley Balko | 3.28.2007 9:58 AM

Policy

Prison Rape and the Drug War

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2007 1:04 PM

Policy

Webb: American Gulag "Tearing the Country Apart"

Radley Balko | 3.20.2007 4:10 PM

Policy

Tyrone Brown Freed

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2007 4:51 PM

Policy

To Life, to Life! Or Fry 'Em?

Even sex offenders can be punished too severely.

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2007 5:15 AM

Civil Liberties

Court Decides: S & M Not Consensual

Brian Doherty | 3.6.2007 6:06 PM

Civil Liberties

The Madness of Patrick Fitzgerald

Sifting through the nonsense that is the Scooter Libby trial

Michael McMenamin | 3.5.2007 5:41 AM