Trump Promises To Give Police 'Immunity From Prosecution'
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
At least one inmate claims that the shower stalls, which were just 3 feet by 3 feet, were covered in human feces.
In 2021, the Associated Press uncovered rampant sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. After three years of failing to fix the problem, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting it down.
Officials claim the policy is intended to prevent people from smuggling in contraband, but it allows shipments from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Michael Garrett and other Texas inmates get less than four hours of sleep a night. He argues it's cruel and unusual punishment.
Randall Mays, who has an IQ of 63, was resentenced to life without parole.
Two class-action lawsuits say Michigan counties take cuts of the exorbitant costs of inmate phone calls while children go months without seeing their parents in person.
James Crumbley, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, may be an unsympathetic defendant. But this prosecution still made little sense.
Instead of searching for gentle execution methods, states should just stop killing prisoners.
It can certainly be true that Peter Cichuniec made an egregious professional misjudgment. And it can also be true that punishing him criminally makes little sense.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
Mississippi's prisons are falling apart, run by gangs, and riddled with sexual assaults, a Justice Department report says.
Criminal justice advocates say the evidence doesn't back up Republicans' claims that Louisiana's landmark 2017 reforms are to blame for violent crime.
Yang Hengjun's punishment will be commuted to life in prison if he passes a probationary period. But the espionage accusations against him are highly spurious.
The new libertarian president believes in free markets and the rule of law. When people have those things, prosperity happens.
Following the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith last week, Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill to bring the execution method to their state.
Kenneth Eugene Smith was likely the first person in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.
From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.
Big government has been ruinous for millions of people. Charities aren't perfect, but they are much more efficient and effective.
An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Knoxville-area facility is putting kids in solitary but skirting scrutiny by classifying the seclusion as "voluntary."
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.
Children held in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center are routinely subjected to solitary confinement, inadequate meals, and filthy cells, according to legal documents.
The Bureau of Prisons released more than 12,000 people on home confinement during the pandemic. Three years later, Republicans want to overturn a Justice Department rule allowing those still serving sentences to stay home.
The issue was rejected because it "jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution."
The best reforms would correct the real problems of overcriminalization and overincarceration, as well as removing all artificial barriers to building more homes.
Reason reported in 2021 how prisons use cheap field kits to test mail for contraband—and use the faulty, unconfirmed results to severely punish inmates.
The case is just one example of miscalculations that routinely keep Louisiana prisoners behind bars after they complete their sentences.
"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has directed the state to review 56 death-row clemency applications after he made comments opposing capital punishment in April.
How Florida prison officials let a man's prostate cancer progress until he was paralyzed and terminally ill.
A federal judge ruled in favor of an Idaho death-row inmate who says that the state is "psychologically torturing" him.
The Justice Department will investigate reports that inmates at Fulton County Jail are subject to filthy living conditions.
Lai's media company covered the Communist government's abuses when other Hong Kong media wouldn't.
James Barber is set to be killed next month, the first execution after a string of botched lethal injection executions in the state.
If it's not a sweetheart deal, everyone else deserves the same leniency.
Only two clemency applications from death row inmates in Louisiana have been granted in the past 50 years.
Joseph Zamora spent nearly two years in prison after being convicted of assaulting police officers. The Washington Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but local prosecutors want to charge him again to show him the "improperness of his behavior."
No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.
A Reason investigation earlier this year detailed the case of a Minnesota woman who was sentenced to 40 years on probation for a drug crime.
By glossing over routine crime victims in favor of stories with unorthodox circumstances, the press paints a distorted picture of a very real problem.
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