Justice Department Tangles with Judges Over First Federal Execution in 17 Years
A court delay on Friday was lifted over the weekend, only to be reinstated Monday for different reasons.
A court delay on Friday was lifted over the weekend, only to be reinstated Monday for different reasons.
A Reason investigation has identified three deaths from alleged medical neglect at FCI Aliceville, a federal women's prison. Current and former inmates say it's routine, but the Bureau of Prisons won't talk about it.
Indiana is still fighting to keep Tyson Timbs' SUV seven years after it first seized the car, but for now, it's back in Timbs' driveway.
ACLU argues the practice violates the Eighth Amendment.
Videos and photos smuggled out by Mississippi inmates have shown gruesome violence and wretched living conditions.
In Mississippi's severely understaffed prisons, gangs run the show.
Inmates say Keith Turner abused them for a decade. Now children have stepped forward with complaints of molestation.
The ruling is a continuation of the same case in which the federal Supreme Court ruled that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment is "incorporated" against state governments and applies to asset forfeitures.
Law enforcement and prosecutors have seized millions from people they’ve arrested. That might be coming to an end.
Dean Higgins claims he was put in a cell that regularly flooded with raw sewage for seven months after he bit a guard while having an involuntary seizure.
If governments can oppress, they usually will.
Florida man may lose home because he didn’t cut his grass.
"Historically the answer to that question is yes, and we're sticking with that position here."
If Kavanaugh is a committed originalist, you would never know it based on his complacent behavior in Timbs v. Indiana.
The federal attempt to take the patch uniquely combines free speech violations and asset forfeiture.
Institute for Justice sues Dunedin, Fla., over the $29,000 in fines imposed without due process over Jim Ficken's unmowed lawn.
Following a Reason investigation into Chicago's punitive vehicle impound program, a new lawsuit alleges the practice violates Chicagoans constitutional rights.
My testimony addressed the general problem of asset forfeiture, the potential impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Timbs v. Indiana, and Arkansas' recent reform law.
The decision in Timbs v. Indiana is a significant step forward for property rights and civil liberties, though a key issue remains to be resolved by lower courts.
The future of civil asset forfeiture law in the United States now revolves around a single Land Rover.
The Supreme Court seems disinclined to overturn precedents allowing serial prosecutions of the same crime.
The Court seems very likely to rule that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment applies to state governments, and that at least some asset forfeitures violate the Clause. Potentially a big win for property rights and civil liberties.
The case both addresses important legal issues, and could have substantial practical implications.
Women prisoners are more likely to receive solitary confinement and other harsh punishments for minor infractions like "reckless eye-balling."
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "Keeping prisoners in 'near-total isolation' from the living world [...] comes perilously close to a penal tomb."
No constitutional right to pay cash for freedom if there are alternatives
The president-elect reserves the right to torture terrorism suspects for revenge.