Prisons

Policy

Killing Me Softly

Is "putting down" a murderer "cruel and unusual"?

Ronald Bailey | 4.28.2006 11:04 AM

Politics

The Worst and the Rest

Are there no innocent men at Guantanamo Bay?

Jacob Sullum | 4.26.2006 3:34 PM

Politics

How Much Torture Is OK?

Tickin time bombs and slippery slopes

Cathy Young | 12.6.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Dirty Bummer

Why the White House should make its case against Jose Padilla, but won't

Matt Welch | 11.23.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Police Tricks

Shame and the sex trade.

Kerry Howley | 10.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Data: Pot Bust

Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Lifetime Commitment

Surveillance in the Sunshine State.

Kerry Howley | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Should We Cure Bad Behavior?

Tough questions about crime and neuro-rehabilitation

Ronald Bailey | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Injustice is Blind

Federal sentencing in flux.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Pentagon's Secret Stash

Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos.

Matt Welch | 4.1.2005 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Shocked to Death

Tasers under fire.

Brian Doherty | 4.1.2005 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Songs of Innocence

DNA testing victory

Julian Sanchez | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Three Strikes, Out?

Sea change in California

Matt Welch | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Gluttons for Punishment

The Supreme Court's expansion of judicial sentencing discretion could provoke a dangerous congressional backlash.

Jacob Sullum | 1.14.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Thinking About Torture

Or is it really all that it is cracked up to be?

Jeff Taylor | 1.10.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Endless Detention

From Guantanamo to "Camp 6"?

Julian Sanchez | 1.3.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants

Why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America.

Harvey Silverglate | 1.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Who's Tortured?

What prominent conservative commentators have said about prisoner abuse

Matt Welch | 12.27.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Healers and Dealers

Prosecuting doctors for their patients' misuse of narcotics hurts people in pain

Jacob Sullum | 11.19.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Rant: Do the Lynndie Hop

How to explain abuses at Abu Ghraib.

Nick Gillespie | 7.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Criminal Representation

Did Congress quietly make it a crime for lawyers to defend terror suspects?

Jarett Decker | 6.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Pill Sham

A man seeking pain relief gets 25 years for drug trafficking

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Spy, Adulterer, Whatever

Capt. James Yee's prosecutors make the case for due process.

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The Point of Departures

Just sentences require judicial discretion.

Jacob Sullum | 8.15.2003 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Kobe Beef

Issues of fairness raised on rape "shield"

Cathy Young | 8.5.2003 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Rape Behind Bars

Cell block sexual abuse

Jesse Walker | 8.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Felonious Bunk

Why ex-cons should be given the vote

Matt Welch | 7.25.2003 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Faith/Off

Chuck Colson wants captives for Jesus

Kerry Howley | 7.24.2003 12:00 AM

Anarchism

Anarcho-Surrealist Prison Update

Jesse Walker | 4.10.2003 11:08 AM

Policy

Sane Enough to Kill?

Court decision shields juries from evidence of psychosis.

Ronald Bailey | 2.11.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

She Done Him Wrong

Cowboy law, sexism mix in wronged wife's trial.

Cathy Young | 2.4.2003 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Guilt Tip

Ronald Bailey | 2.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Yes Means No

Troubling questions about rape and consent

Cathy Young | 1.21.2003 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Editor's Note: Jury Nullification

Nick Gillespie | 1.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Registration Required

Are sex offenders uniquely dangerous?

Jacob Sullum | 11.8.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Guilt Tip

Prosecutors who believe in justice should be clamoring for DNA testing.

Ronald Bailey | 11.6.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 11.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Death to Murderous Snipers

Ronald Bailey | 10.25.2002 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Criminal Offense

Should religious insults put you in jail?

Jacob Sullum | 10.25.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Lethal Injection Gender Gap

Why aren't women clamoring for the right to be killed by the state?

Cathy Young | 10.8.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Making a Killing in Business

When crime pays, there will be plenty of criminals.

Mike Lynch | 10.1.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 7.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

License to Kill

Men and women, crime and punishment.

Cathy Young | 7.1.2002 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Handicapping Justice

Brian Doherty | 6.21.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Double Standard

The bias against male victims of sexual abuse.

Cathy Young | 6.4.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Drugged Trials

Medicated until proven guilty

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Sick and Wrong

How sex criminals get punished twice.

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Evading Blame

The Yates killings highlight the loose language of mental illness

Brian Doherty | 6.23.2001 12:00 AM