People sometimes ask who is the worst prosecutor in America, from a human rights standpoint. Most would answer that it…
Bexar County, Texas, home to San Antonio, once rested in the picaresque clutches of District Attorney Nico LaHood, an Islamophobic…
In 2018, Hennepin County Attorney Michael O. Freeman faced his first serious challenge for the top prosecutor seat in Minneapolis,…
On August 27, Chicago’s district attorney announced an ambitious plan to expunge tens of thousands of low-level cannabis convictions. Kim…
The federal government’s move to ditch confidentiality regulations for substance use disorder treatment will increase patients’ exposure to law enforcement…
At any given moment, there are roughly 600,000 people languishing in local American jails. About three-quarters of them have been…
In a symbol of efforts to make the cannabis industry more inclusive, Boston’s first recreational dispensary will be owned and operated…
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of a legal battle with the potential…
Despite its very liberal reputation and national-level voting record, the capital of what some call the “freest nation on earth”…
On August 5, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study on police killings in the…