Criminal Justice Reporter
In 28 states, there's no minimum age for arresting kids.
Dickie Lynn's story shows how the drug war warped the criminal justice system.
The HALT Act would allow incarcerated people to be held in solitary confinement for no more than 15 days.
After news investigations uncovered numerous allegations that cops in a small California town were robbing motorists of cash and weed, two former officers are now facing federal charges.
The case drew national outrage from press freedom groups, who called the prosecution excessive and a threat to journalism.
Courts have widely upheld the First Amendment right to hurl choice words or gestures at police.
"In the drafting, we were adamant that you didn't have to have an interest to have access. You could just be a citizen."
A sloppy panopticon is almost as dangerous as an effective one.
The plan will shift $25 million away from school police and into support services for black students.
Criminal justice groups say Biden should move the pardon process out of the Justice Department and consider categorical clemencies.
The 2nd Circuit rejected the police unions' arguments that disclosure would invade officers' privacy and put them in danger.
"You did it to yourself, hon," the officer says.
"During difficult times we must remain the most vigilant to protect the constitutional rights of the powerless," the judge writes.
Some doable libertarian ideas for the new president
The memo reverses a directive from former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that ordered federal prosecutors to throw the book at low-level drug offenders.
The COVID-19 pandemic drove an unprecedented drop in incarceration, a new study finds, but the authors warn it could bounce right back.
Biden reportedly will also reinstate restriction on transfers of surplus military gear to police.
"The only people who broke the law here were the police officers and TBI agents who participated in this flagrantly unconstitutional arrest."
Theresa Mathis was in the middle of a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence when she sent Reason a letter asking for help.
During the last few election cycles, a wave of well-funded progressive candidates have run for prosecutor's offices in major cities. This time, quite a few reform-minded D.A.s won.
Proposals are already being floated for new unnecessary laws and punishments to address the riots.
A report cites his "anti-government," "anti-police" ideology as an impetus for the fatal no-knock raid.
The list also included several drug war victims.
Trump's clemencies last night surprised a lot of people—including one of the recipients. Clemency advocates are confident more are on the way.
The report confirms what news investigations and advocates have said for years: Lowell prison lets guards abuse women without consequence.
The move is similar to what's known as a "reverse FOIA" lawsuit, which forces the requester to go to court to defend his right to access public records.
Chicago went to court to try and block a local news station from airing the body camera footage.
The suit follows a scathing 2019 report detailing unchecked violence and sexual assault against incarcerated people.
The PACER database is antiquated and expensive to access, and that's just the way the federal judiciary likes it.
Audits and research into the effectiveness of predictive policing have yielded mixed to negative assessments.
The DEA dropped its attempt to keep the money roughly two months after the woman joined a class-action lawsuit challenging cash seizures at airports.
A deputy from the same sheriff's office was charged with animal cruelty last year for casually shooting a small dog.
A reformer ousted the incumbent district attorney of L.A. County, and several major cities voted to create police oversight boards.
Lawmakers introduced hundreds of policing bills in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. A few dozen passed.
A new book shows how the Baltimore Police Department let dirty cops flourish right under its nose.
Total prison population, imprisonment rates, and racial disparities in incarceration all continued their slide.
The progressive who helped usher in mass incarceration is running against the law and order conservative who let prisoners go free.
A local news investigation found three dozen cops who committed crimes but never were decertified.
Just the latest in a string of incidents involving school police and children with disabilities
A survey of presidential preferences and regrets
The Trump administration deployed more than 100 federal law enforcement officers to Portland to quell weeks of unrest. The administration claimed it was simply protecting a federal courthouse.
Joe Biden has said plenty of regrettable things about criminal justice, but that wasn't one of them.
Atilano Dominguez was serving a life sentence for marijuana offenses, and federal prosecutors tried to ensure he died behind bars.
The charges are not for killing Taylor, but rather endangering her neighbors with wild shots.
The parts that aren't constitutionally dubious are brainless culture-war fodder.
That includes 1,114 armored personnel carriers.
