A population that perceives itself at the top of the pile soon becomes fearful, runs one theory, because the only…
On April 26, President Joe Biden announced that he was using his clemency powers to pardon three people and commute…
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s elevation to the Supreme Court from the DC Circuit was confirmed earlier this month. She’ll be…
Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit has just implemented its first-ever Adult Civil Citation program—a 90-day pilot that will divert people detained…
In 2016, Barbara LaWall, then the elected prosecutor of Pima County (Tucson), published an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star…
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin did not want to release the dashcam video of two officers getting shot by David…
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a federal life sentence in 2015. But…
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout started the Oakland-based nonprofit For The…
Juries in the United States are not just 12 people selected at random. Instead, both the prosecution and the defense…
A kid dying of an opioid-involved overdose is a tragedy. Thankfully, it is comparatively rare, if increasing, according to an…