The Justice Department announced last year that it would expand a program to grant compassionate relief to federal inmates who've been sexually assaulted by staff.
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
"I'm shaking and crying because I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,'" one student told a Vermont newspaper. "It felt so real."
A new law will make it much harder to film law enforcement officers in their public duties. Does that violate the First Amendment?
That take on the former president's New York conviction echoes similarly puzzling claims by many people who should know better.
A WIRED investigation reveals the extent to which residents of Chula Vista are subjected to surveillance from the sky.
The fourth Bad Boys film is an uninspired retread.
Corey Harris attracted widespread news coverage—including from Reason—when a video showed him behind the wheel during a court hearing about a suspended license. Except he never had a license at all.
The lack of a clear rationale for charging Trump with 34 felonies raises a due process issue that is likely to figure in his appeals.
Republican lawmakers are undoing bipartisan measures against unjust prison sentences and punitive policies.
Yareni Rios was severely injured after a train struck a police car she had been placed in after being arrested in 2022.
Law enforcement could arrest those they suspect of crossing into the state illegally—and they’d be “immune from liability for damages.”
Their cases illustrate the injustice of taking away people’s Second Amendment rights based on nonviolent crimes
The president's son, who is charged with crimes that violated no one's rights, theoretically faces up to 25 years in prison.
The Safer Supervision Act would create an off-ramp for those with good behavior to petition to have their supervised release sentences terminated early.
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Bans have resulted in what some have called the "whitewashing" of American juries.
Welcome to a system in which laws and regulations are weaponized by the powerful against opponents.
The University of Texas is just one campus that has seen police arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators.
The former president's loss of his Second Amendment rights highlights an arbitrary restriction that applies to many people with no history of violence.
Even in an era of police militarization, there’s something shocking about seeing cops in riot gear on college campuses.
While drones are less likely to shoot or maim innocent civilians, they could also pose privacy issues.
Whatever Trump did after the 2016 presidential election, it seems safe to say that it did not retroactively promote his victory.
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There was a glaring mismatch between the charges against the former president and what prosecutors described as the essence of his crime.
An ideologically diverse mix of individuals and organizations supports a Texas journalist who was arrested for asking questions.
The town of Sturgeon initially defended the officer, saying he was afraid of being bitten by the 13-pound blind and deaf Shih Tzu.
Justin Pulliam's arrest and lawsuit once again demand we ask if "real" journalists are entitled to a different set of rights.
The judge said the jurors need not agree about the "unlawful means" that Trump allegedly used to promote his 2016 election.
The former and possibly future president hopes voters will overlook his incoherence.
Closing arguments in the former president's trial highlight the mismatch between the charges and the "election fraud" he supposedly committed.
The Sixth Amendment was originally seen as vital to preserving liberty. Yet it has been consistently watered down.
Detectives in Fontana, California, told Thomas Perez Jr. that his father was dead and that he killed him. Neither was true.
In practice, police unions' primary responsibility seems to be shielding officers from accountability and defending their conduct no matter what.
Ulbricht is serving two life sentences plus 40 years in connection with the Silk Road, an online marketplace he founded and operated where users could buy and sell illegal substances.
The Minneapolis Reckoning shows why calls to defund the police gained momentum after George Floyd's death and why voters with no love for the cops still rejected an abolitionist ballot measure.
This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.
Since he favors aggressive drug law enforcement, severe penalties, and impunity for abusive police officers, he may have trouble persuading black voters that he is on their side.
