Prisons

Politics

Afghan Detainees Are in a Lose, Lose, Lose Situation

Julie Ershadi | 2.16.2012 12:20 PM

Policy

The State Squeal of Vermont

Jacob Sullum | 2.3.2012 10:57 AM

Politics

Lawsuit Alleges NYPD Harassed Transgender Woman, Kept Her Chained for 28 Hours over Minor Subway Violation

Lucy Steigerwald | 2.2.2012 5:41 PM

Policy

The New Yorker Has a Sobering Look at the Whys of America's Prison-Industrial Complex

Lucy Steigerwald | 1.26.2012 4:28 PM

Politics

Rick Santorum Worries About the Drug War's Racial Impact

Jacob Sullum | 1.17.2012 1:21 PM

Politics

Rick Santorum Does Not Know Drug Offenders Have Families

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2012 12:10 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Prisons Live on KALW San Francisco

Reason Staff | 12.14.2011 1:00 PM

Politics

Obama's Indefinite Detention Powers

Does the president have the authority to imprison anyone he says is a terrorist?

Jacob Sullum | 12.7.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Should Judges Continue Imposing Sentences Congress Has Rejected as Unfair?

Jacob Sullum | 11.30.2011 12:57 PM

Policy

Innocence Is No Defense Against Virginia's Sex Offender Registry

Jacob Sullum | 11.28.2011 4:18 PM

Politics

More of These, Please: Obama's First Commutation

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2011 4:26 PM

Policy

20 Years Later, Mandatory Minimum Sentences Are Still Mindlessly Draconian

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2011 1:23 PM

Policy

A Life Sentence for Possessing Child Pornography

Jacob Sullum | 11.7.2011 3:08 PM

Policy

Riverside County, CA Wants Jails to Become "Prison Hotels," Without the Amenities

Seth McKelvey | 11.4.2011 5:00 PM

Policy

Chicago May Decriminalize Marijuana Possession

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2011 11:34 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: Interview with Reason Cartoonist Peter Bagge

Nick Gillespie and Anthony Fisher | 9.30.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

The Escalating Penalty for Asserting Your Right to a Trial

Jacob Sullum | 9.26.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

You Call That a Mandatory Minimum?

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 3:07 PM

Politics

California Prisons Isolate Some Inmates for Years

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.6.2011 11:15 AM

Politics

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

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2011 4:31 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

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

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

Policy

Collars for Dollars

How the drug war sacrifices real policing for easy arrests.

Peter Moskos | 6.29.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Bad Boys

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

Radley Balko | 6.27.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

You've Got Jail

Is it time to bring America's prisoners online?

Greg Beato | 6.24.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

The Golden State's Iron Bars

How California prison guards became the country's most powerful union

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.23.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Stephen Cox on Libertarian Literature and Prisons as Failed Planned Societies

Paul Detrick | 6.20.2011 3:28 PM

Policy

The Crime Rate Puzzle

Did incarceration reduce the crime rate, or did it get in the way?

Radley Balko | 6.20.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

How Gingrich's Love Drives Him to Kill

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2011 3:53 PM

Policy

California High School Accidentally Distributes Child Porn

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2011 1:50 PM

Policy

Did Jimmy Carter End the War on Drugs?

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2011 12:16 PM

Policy

Prison Math

What are the costs and benefits of leading the world in locking up human beings?

Veronique de Rugy | 6.8.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Prison Guards Union Locks Up Benefits, Politicians, People

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.7.2011 7:23 PM

Policy

Connecticut Decriminalizes Real Pot, Criminalizes Fake Pot

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2011 5:34 PM

Politics

Shrink the Prisons

Conservatives are as wrong about prison overcrowding as liberals were about welfare reform.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.7.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

The Ends Didn't Justify the Means

Our complicity in the devastating war on crime

Matt Welch | 6.6.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Growing Pot Remains a Felony in California

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2011 3:33 PM

Policy

Holder Wants to Limit Crack Sentence Reductions

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2011 3:19 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Conservative Response to the Supreme Court's Prison Crowding Decision

Reason Staff | 6.3.2011 12:10 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh, CBC Radio Say Eh to Prison Reform

Reason Staff | 5.28.2011 11:55 PM

Civil Liberties

Chinese Prisons Forcing Inmates to Mine Gold…Online?

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2011 8:02 AM

Policy

Drug Offenders in California's Overcrowded Prisons

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 4:07 PM