Criminal Justice

Policy

Drug Control Begets Gun Control

The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms.

Jacob Sullum | 4.22.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Video of Erie, PA Cop Mocking Homicide Victim Appears on YouTube. Erie PD Launches Investigation . . . To Find the Identity of the Person Who Posted It

Radley Balko | 4.21.2009 3:47 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: The Deaths of One Writer, Two Banks, 31 Boys, and Countless Newspapers

Jesse Walker | 4.20.2009 7:15 AM

Policy

Federal Prosecutor Tries to Silence Drug Policy Activist (Again)

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Unarmed GVSU Student Shot During Drug Raid Arrested on Marijuana Charges

Radley Balko | 4.17.2009 11:43 AM

Policy

Customs Officer Sues After Wrong-Door Immigration Raid on His Home

Radley Balko | 4.14.2009 11:47 AM

Policy

Premature Salvia Arrest in Ohio

Jacob Sullum | 4.13.2009 2:13 PM

Policy

Police Raid Roundup

Radley Balko | 4.13.2009 10:38 AM

Policy

When Jurors Talk Back

The case for letting juries ask questions during trial

Steve Chapman | 4.13.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Osama bin Freed

Jeff Winkler | 4.10.2009 3:10 PM

Policy

Alabama To Review 100 Autopsies Performed by Discredited Medical Examiner

Radley Balko | 4.10.2009 1:10 PM

Policy

Unspeakable Legislation

Jesse Walker | 4.9.2009 10:27 AM

Politics

Is Obama Planning to Ramp Up the War on Drugs?

Nick Gillespie | 4.9.2009 8:56 AM

Policy

Eyewitness Testimony on Trial

New research and DNA exonerations call fresh attention to an old problem

Radley Balko | 4.8.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

Timothy Cole's Name Is Finally Cleared

Radley Balko | 4.8.2009 3:04 PM

Policy

Facebook, Not Just for Drunk Pics Anymore. Also for Catching Drunk Perps.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.7.2009 7:00 PM

Policy

The War on Drugs: What's Race Got to Do With It?

Jacob Sullum | 4.6.2009 3:48 PM

Policy

Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Hayne, West

Radley Balko | 4.6.2009 1:11 PM

Policy

Mary Beth Buchanan vs. John Murtha: Which One Do You Root For?

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2009 1:09 PM

Politics

Justice Department Withdraws Indictment of Ted Stevens

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2009 11:52 AM

Policy

Webb: 'We Are Locking Up Too Many People Who Do Not Belong in Jail'

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2009 2:18 PM

War on Drugs

Maryland House Passes SWAT Transparency Bill

Radley Balko | 3.30.2009 1:58 PM

Policy

Super Sperm

The DNA-denying prosecutor

Radley Balko | 3.30.2009 12:31 PM

Policy

New Series Profiles Dallas DA's Efforts to Find Wrongly Convicted

Radley Balko | 3.29.2009 10:29 AM

Policy

Rockefeller Drug Laws Closer to Gone

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2009 5:20 PM

Policy

Hilltop View, Inconvenient to Schools (and Parks, Playgrounds, Etc.)

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2009 3:54 PM

Policy

The War on Drugs is No Laughing Matter

It's time for Barack Obama to take legalization seriously

Terry Michael | 3.27.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

PA Supreme Court Voids Convictions of Railroaded Juvenile Defendants

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2009 1:17 PM

Policy

More "Sexting" Nonsense

Radley Balko | 3.27.2009 11:58 AM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Social Networking, Socialist Nicaragua, and Psychic News

Jesse Walker | 3.27.2009 9:23 AM

Policy

The New Police Professionalism in Action

Radley Balko | 3.26.2009 2:37 PM

Policy

In Criminal Cases, Should Science Only Serve the State?

Forensic scientists who testify for criminal defendants are under fire. They ought to be praised.

Radley Balko | 3.25.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

The End of Hysteria and the Last Man

Will the Justice Department's new medical marijuana policy save Charlie Lynch?

Jacob Sullum | 3.25.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Forensics Fraud?

Experts say this video shows a doctor manufacturing evidence. So why is a man still on death row?

Radley Balko | 3.24.2009 12:00 PM

Policy

Prosecutors Behaving Badly

Radley Balko | 3.24.2009 10:57 AM

Policy

Late Registration Penalty: 26 Years

Jacob Sullum | 3.23.2009 3:05 PM

Politics

Guantanamo State of Mind

President Obama should reject the arrogance that made the infamous prison possible.

Jacob Sullum | 3.23.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Shocking News For People Who Love Good News

Jeff Winkler | 3.20.2009 3:48 PM

Policy

Rogue Police Narcotics Squad in Philly Terrorizing Immigrant Grocers

Radley Balko | 3.20.2009 10:27 AM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Capital Markets, Capital Punishment, Capital on Stage

Jesse Walker | 3.19.2009 8:15 AM

Policy

Extreme Associates Obscenity Case Ends in Guilty Pleas

Jacob Sullum | 3.18.2009 5:11 PM

Politics

Assault Weapon Ban: Again?

Brian Doherty | 3.18.2009 3:32 PM

Politics

The Gunman and the Gun Ban

Does Michael McLendon's rampage demonstrate the need to prohibit "assault weapons"?

Jacob Sullum | 3.18.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Bull Connor Lives

Radley Balko | 3.17.2009 1:17 PM

Policy

Paradise City Lost

Jeff Winkler | 3.16.2009 5:42 PM

Policy

Eighteen Months per Shoe

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2009 12:28 PM

Politics

We Are Very Concerned About the Anger We're Fomenting

Matt Welch | 3.16.2009 12:10 PM