Director of Criminal Justice Reform, Reason Foundation
What was originally intended as an alternative to incarceration has become a system for mass state control.
In Tennessee and around the country, "drug-free school zones" are little more than excuses for harsher drug sentencing.
Popehat's Ken White and author John Pfaff on the need for reform.
These were executions of convenience.
Florida's anti-opioid laws were supposed to take high-level traffickers off the streets. Instead, they put low-level users in prison for most of their lives.
Heroin hysteria is in full swing this year.
Laziness in the lab
Police arrests
Inside the lives of five people who have served their time, but are still paying for their crimes
Draconian sentencing
The slowness and disorganization of the clemency process put in place has stranded many of the prisoners and families it was supposed to help.
Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson just blocked a bill that would have provided relief to those sentenced as children to life without parole.
Florida overruled
Any meaningful criminal justice reform must include a reexamination of these draconian policies.
These flawed laws need to be reformed.
A "new face of heroin" is changing the discourse on drug addicts in the media. But has it translated into more humane public policy? Not quite.
Clinton and Sanders had opportunities to offer concrete solutions to criminal justice issues during last night's Democratic debate, but failed to deliver.
Despite significant doubts about Richard Glossip's guilt, Oklahoma is moving forward with its plan to execute him Wednesday afternoon.
This is a promising and positive step in the right direction, but real reform is still needed.
Nebraska becomes first predominately Republican state to abolish capital punishment in more than 40 years
One week after allowing an Oklahoma inmate's execution to be carried out, SCOTUS agrees to hear appeal over the state's use of a controversial execution drug.
There are limits to the type of punishment the state can impose on prisoners in America.
