Category: Criminal Justice
The only way to combat this entrenched practice is to punish not only the officers who abuse citizens but the officers who look the other way or lie to protect the guilty.
The original "ban-the-box" law — a prohibition on asking prospective employees to tick off a checkbox whether they've been convicted of a felony — turned 20 this year.
In fact, I'd venture that prisoners might be made more in God's image than anyone else.
The far-right senator wanted to block a bipartisan compromise on criminal justice. It looks like he will fail.
“Mr. Cohen pled guilty to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct,” Judge William H. Pauley said at the sentencing hearing.
One of the rioting neo-Nazis Trump described as 'very fine people' has now been convicted of murder.
The Department of Justice is moving away from taking on abuses by local law enforcement. This is what that means for Elkhart, Indiana.
The federal sentencing reforms that Donald Trump endorsed last week could shorten the terms of 2,700 or so drug offenders who are already in prison and perhaps another 2,200 who are sent there each year. ...
Last year, Wyoming decided to allow voting by all those who have completed their sentences for nonviolent felonies. Alabama restored rights to 60,000 low-level offenders.
Fake news is a massive problem on the right — as even GOP Sen. Mike Lee is apparently realizing.
The president had endorsed a reform bill, but that didn’t matter to Mitch.
With hate crimes surging nationwide, not a single Republican will sign on as a co-sponsor to a bill to address the problem.
Just before he left, the departing attorney-general adopted a policy to limit the Justice Department’s ability to oversee abusive police departments
The inquiry stems from stories by ProPublica that showed the DEA’s vetted unit in the country has had a history of leaking sensitive information to drug traffickers.
In a surprise decision, embattled Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) announced Monday he would be running for another term after all.
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