They Served Their Sentences. Now They Want To Know When They Can Go Home.
Programs that keep sex offenders indefinitely confined face new challenges.
Programs that keep sex offenders indefinitely confined face new challenges.
A federal appeals court rejects a highly implausible redefinition of machine guns.
The defense will have a hard time showing that Chauvin's conduct was justified by any threat Floyd posed.
The officers knowingly violated the First Amendment, said the court. But that doesn't matter.
“I think if Chauvin’s acquitted, we’re fucked,” says one local cop.
"This is why people need to beat their kids," one officer remarked.
This morning's summary reversal of a habeas petition grant in Mays v. Hines.
The women's liberation movement has gotten tied to mass incarceration. It needs to break free.
It is the first city in the U.S. to do so.
The government has pocketed millions of dollars from immigrants who came to the U.S. legally—and has refused to pay them back.
Pretrial detention is supposed to be for people deemed dangerous, not people without money.
Plus: New York moves closer to legal weed, Parler pushes back on extremism claims, and more...
In 28 states, there's no minimum age for arresting kids.
Predictive policing lets authorities add a science-y gloss to hammering people who rub them the wrong way.
"The application of physical force to the body with the intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the person does not submit and is not subdued."
This awful gun control talking point won’t go away.
“There was no immediate danger,” Sotomayor said, yet the police “decided on their own to go in and seize the gun.”
Cracking down on protesters angry about police violence doesn't exactly inspire civic trust.
The president has ordered the Education Department to consider rescinding reforms aimed at protecting the due process rights of accused students.
Rhetoric around the shootings risks putting massage workers everywhere in more danger.
President Joe Biden campaigned on ending the federal death penalty, but he’s been quiet about it since taking office.
Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.
Dickie Lynn's story shows how the drug war warped the criminal justice system.
Politicians on the right and the left are coming for your free speech.
The full video shows that Jay Baker was paraphrasing what Robert Aaron Long told investigators about his motivations.
After gratuitously terrifying a 6-year-old girl, the officers blamed her mother, who also had done nothing illegal.
The new HBO documentary looks at what happened before, during, and after the 1978 MOVE shootout in Philadelphia.
"If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it's perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them."
The HALT Act would allow incarcerated people to be held in solitary confinement for no more than 15 days.
Union resistance shut down last year’s effort.