Sentencing

Policy

New York's Highest Court Says Merely Looking at Kiddie Porn Is Not a State Crime

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2012 6:09 PM

Policy

How Dharun Ravi's Prosecutors Turned a Minor, Nonviolent Offense Into a Felony Subject to a 10-Year Prison Sentence

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 2:50 PM

Policy

20 Years for Standing Her Ground

A Florida woman faces prison after firing a warning shot to scare off an abusive husband.

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

'Shock Artist' Could Get 25 Years for Offending Federal Prosecutors

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 12:24 PM

Policy

20 Years for Standing Her Ground Against a Violent Husband

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2012 1:47 PM

Politics

Crack Cocaine, Mandatory Minimums, and the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 4.18.2012 11:11 AM

Policy

How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?

Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2012 4:47 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Says Defendants Have a Right to Effective Counsel in Deciding Whether to Reject a Plea Bargain

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 5:11 PM

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Hateless Hate Crime

A jury blames Dharun Ravi for his dead roommate's imagined feelings.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Does Tyler Clementi's Suicide Prove Dharun Ravi Is a Bigot?

Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2012 4:42 PM

Policy

Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime?

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2012 4:25 PM

Policy

Bill Bennett Takes Drug Policy Advice From Bruce Springsteen

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2012 2:04 PM

Policy

Is Dharun Ravi Guilty of 'Bias Intimidation'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 12:11 PM

Politics

Ordeal by Trial: Sowing Chaos With the Sixth Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2012 2:52 PM

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Thought Crimes

The Tyler Clementi case shows how hate crime laws punish opinion.

Jacob Sullum | 2.29.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

No Sex Tape, No Outing in Tyler Clementi Case

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2012 4:31 PM

Politics

Rand Paul Blocks Synthetic Drug Bans

Jacob Sullum | 2.23.2012 11:42 AM

Policy

Montana Medical Marijuana Providers Get What Passes for Lenience Under Our Drug Laws

Jacob Sullum | 2.20.2012 11:55 AM

Politics

Rick Santorum Does Not Know Drug Offenders Have Families

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2012 12:10 PM

Policy

Colorado Drug Warrior Busted for Meth Distribution

Jacob Sullum | 11.30.2011 5:35 PM

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

Politics

Sentencing Guidelines for Crack Cocaine Offenses Are Now Officially Less Appalling

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.1.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Chicago May Decriminalize Marijuana Possession

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2011 11:34 AM

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

Bummer

Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior.

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

'Someone at That Office Must Have Misread the Statute'

Jacob Sullum | 9.9.2011 1:20 PM

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

Policy

Scientific Evidence Clearly Shows That Ecstasy Is Only 200 Times As Bad As Pot

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 1:51 PM

Policy

U.S. Sentencing Commission Makes Crack Sentence Changes Retroactive

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2011 3:21 PM

Politics

Bad Boys

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

Radley Balko | 6.27.2011 12:00 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

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

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

Policy

Drug Offenders in California's Overcrowded Prisons

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 4:07 PM