Prisons

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

Politics

Supreme Court Upholds Order to Slash California's Prison Population

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 5:50 PM

Policy

If Prostitutes Are Slaves, How Can Punishing Them Be Just?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2011 7:28 PM

Civil Liberties

"Time to Take Prisons Seriously" or, The Secret History of the American Penitentiary

Nick Gillespie | 5.5.2011 12:20 PM

Policy

Oklahoma: America's Indonesia

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2011 5:16 PM

Policy

DOJ Denies Marc Emery's Transfer Request

Jacob Sullum | 4.27.2011 5:00 PM

Politics

Jerry Brown's Vacation Gift to Prison Guards

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.22.2011 1:29 PM

Politics

The Bureau of Prisons Tries Some New Tricks

Brian Doherty | 3.18.2011 3:50 PM

Policy

The Salvia May Be Simulated, but the Bars Are Real

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2011 12:38 PM

Policy

Drug Sentencing Reform in Kentucky

Jacob Sullum | 3.10.2011 12:29 PM

Policy

Prison Rape: Still a Problem. Government: Still Not All That Concerned About It.

Radley Balko | 3.9.2011 3:35 PM

Policy

Texas Friendly Spoken to Illegals (as Long as They Work in Your House)

Nick Gillespie | 3.8.2011 8:34 AM

Civil Liberties

Briefly Noted: DIY Exoneration

Radley Balko | 3.4.2011 4:54 PM

Policy

Mitch Daniels' Pot Luck

The Indiana governor's escape from prison taught him the importance of being tough on drug users.

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2011 7:00 AM