Criminal Justice

Politics

If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, Try, Try Again

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2011 4:31 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Fighting the War on Cameras - Jerome Vorus and the ACLU take D.C. to Court

Joshua Swain and Nick Gillespie | 7.25.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Allen Kephart Taser Death Evidence Shuffle

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.24.2011 2:09 PM

Policy

Targeting Child Porn With Sarbanes-Oxley; or, How to Cut Your Sentence in Half With a Hammer

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 5:40 PM

Policy

'It Should Look Good on YouTube': The Anti-Harless

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 3:26 PM

Politics

Reason On Radio: Tim Cavanaugh talks California Prison Guards on Fresno's KMJ 105.9FM 580AM

Reason Staff | 7.22.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

Scientific Evidence Clearly Shows That Ecstasy Is Only 200 Times As Bad As Pot

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 1:51 PM

Policy

'I Should Blast You in the Mouth Right Now'

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 11:13 AM

Policy

At the University of North Dakota, Yes Also Means No

Jacob Sullum | 7.21.2011 6:55 PM

Politics

Stanford So Smart Even Its Rapists Are Logical

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.21.2011 3:50 PM

Politics

California Court Says Child Porn Requires Real Children

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 3:56 PM

Policy

A Pocketknife Earns Expulsion but Not a Felony Conviction

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 12:51 PM

Policy

'The Worst Attributes of Meth, Coke, PCP, LSD, and Ecstasy'

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 12:20 PM

Politics

New Jersey Proceeds With Medical Marijuana Dispensaries While Arizona Hangs Back

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2011 5:05 PM

Policy

The Dangers of "Caylee's Law"

Fruitless outrage won't prevent future tragedies.

Steve Chapman | 7.18.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

The Cautionary Tale of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Understanding the collapsing case against the former I.M.F. chief

Cathy Young | 7.13.2011 6:00 PM

Politics

California's Highest-Paid State Employee Is a Doctor No One Trusts to Treat Patients

Matt Welch | 7.13.2011 7:56 AM

Policy

Sheriff's Deputy Kills Former NFL Player Outside a Convenience Store

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2011 2:58 PM

Politics

"TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His Pants; Allegedly Took $50,000 in Other Goods, Cops Say"

Matt Welch | 7.8.2011 9:30 AM

Policy

Bill James: "The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed."

Matt Welch | 7.6.2011 2:20 PM

Policy

Cory Maye's Judgment Day

Matt Welch | 7.6.2011 12:27 PM

Policy

Dueling Perspectives on the Case Against DSK

Jacob Sullum | 7.6.2011 11:51 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Pirates of the North Sea

Jesse Walker | 7.6.2011 11:00 AM

Policy

The Pernicious Perp Walk

What the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case reveals about spotlight-hungry prosecutors

Gene Healy | 7.5.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: The Killing of Allen Kephart - How the police lost the trust of a law-and-order town

Tim Cavanaugh and Paul Detrick | 7.5.2011 10:00 AM

Policy

The Devil's Bargain

How plea agreements, never contemplated by the Framers, undermine justice

Tim Lynch | 7.5.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Keeping Kids Outside the System

Alternatives to juvenile detention are cheaper and more effective.

Irene Sullivan | 7.4.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

An Open Letter From Cory Maye

Matt Welch | 7.1.2011 6:34 PM

Politics

Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Accountable for DSK Debacle

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2011 1:35 PM

Policy

Caged Warmth

Three harrowing days at a women's minimum-security prison!

Peter Bagge | 7.1.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Does the New Medical Marijuana Memo Signal Tolerance for Small Dispensaries?

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2011 10:34 AM

Policy

Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal

Mike Riggs | 6.30.2011 9:32 PM

Policy

The Yearbook Is Not Just Child Pornography; It's Also Evidence of a Sex Crime

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2011 6:58 PM

Policy

U.S. Sentencing Commission Makes Crack Sentence Changes Retroactive

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2011 3:21 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Q&A with Farmageddon's director Kristin Canty

Nick Gillespie and Anthony Fisher | 6.30.2011 3:00 PM

War on Drugs

Maryland Police Tase Panicked Car Crash Victim, Victim Dies

Mike Riggs | 6.29.2011 2:02 PM

Politics

Small Florida Town Reaches Major Milestone: First Death by Cop

Mike Riggs | 6.29.2011 1:53 PM

Culture

Cannabis Culture Interviews Lindy "No-Knock Raid" Vopnfjord

Matt Welch | 6.29.2011 10:52 AM

Policy

Collars for Dollars

How the drug war sacrifices real policing for easy arrests.

Peter Moskos | 6.29.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Was John Edwards Indicted for Violating the Seventh Commandment?

Jacob Sullum | 6.28.2011 5:13 PM

Politics

'Long Prison Terms Are Wasteful Government Spending'

Criminologist Mark Kleiman on replacing severity with swiftness and certainty

Zach Weissmueller | 6.28.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

New Bipartisan Bill Would Legalize Online Poker

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 2:33 PM

Politics

Bad Boys

A rogue's gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising

Radley Balko | 6.27.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

The Facts about American Prisons

Separating economic myths from economic truths

Veronique de Rugy | 6.24.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Crime Labs and the Confrontation Clause

Damon Root | 6.24.2011 4:28 PM

Policy

You've Got Jail

Is it time to bring America's prisoners online?

Greg Beato | 6.24.2011 3:00 PM