Criminal Justice Reporter
DeSantis' chief of staff used a personal phone to coordinate migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard. Now DeSantis' lawyers say those phone logs should be secret.
Numerous federal appeals courts have ruled that filming police is protected under the First Amendment, but police continue to illegally arrest people for it.
The blanket pardon is one of the largest yet, and another sign of the collapse of public support for marijuana prohibition.
The Selective Service should be abolished, not made more efficient and equitable.
There may not be a perfect solution to ending homelessness, but there are some clear principles to reduce the friction for those working to do so.
Phoenix police are trained that "deescalation" means overwhelming and immediate force, whether or not it's necessary.
While the data is far from perfect, if the overall trend holds, violent crime could be back to pre-COVID levels by the end of the year.
The Justice Department announced last year that it would expand a program to grant compassionate relief to federal inmates who've been sexually assaulted by staff.
Republican lawmakers are undoing bipartisan measures against unjust prison sentences and punitive policies.
The Safer Supervision Act would create an off-ramp for those with good behavior to petition to have their supervised release sentences terminated early.
The town of Sturgeon initially defended the officer, saying he was afraid of being bitten by the 13-pound blind and deaf Shih Tzu.
Detectives in Fontana, California, told Thomas Perez Jr. that his father was dead and that he killed him. Neither was true.
The Minneapolis Reckoning shows why calls to defund the police gained momentum after George Floyd's death and why voters with no love for the cops still rejected an abolitionist ballot measure.
Staff shortages and chronic corruption have plagued the Bureau of Prisons for years, exposing inmates to abuse and whistleblowers to retaliation.
Fortson, a 23-year-old active duty airman, was shot and killed by a Florida sheriff's deputy when he opened the door to his apartment holding a gun at his side.
For over 50 years, marijuana has been in the same category of controlled substances as heroin and LSD. The DEA is finally proposing to end that ludicrous policy.
The cars of two Alabama women were seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners. The Supreme Court says they had no constitutional right to a preliminary hearing.
A New Jersey government watchdog said Street Cop Training instructors glorified violence, made discriminatory remarks, and offered unprofessional and unconstitutional advice to officers.
How lax intellectual property rules created a nerd culture phenomenon
Lee announced in 2021 that he was fast-tracking clemency petitions for inmates serving mandatory minimums that had since been repealed. Earlier this year, he scrapped the program with applications still pending.
I'm the DEA's poster child for prescription stimulant abuse: a 30-something adult who needs a telehealth psychiatrist and can't remember what day the garbage truck comes.
The little-known but outrageous practice allowed judges to enhance defendants' sentences using conduct a jury acquitted them of.
Kansas had among the most lax civil asset forfeiture laws in the country, but a bill sent to the governor's desk would strengthen protections for property owners.
In 2021, the Associated Press uncovered rampant sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. After three years of failing to fix the problem, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting it down.
The law makes it a misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of a first responder after receiving a verbal warning to stay away.
Dewonna Goodridge quickly discovered that Kansas civil asset forfeiture laws were stacked against her when sheriff's deputies seized her truck.
Michael Garrett and other Texas inmates get less than four hours of sleep a night. He argues it's cruel and unusual punishment.
New York's botched recreational marijuana rollout just keeps looking worse.
Two class-action lawsuits say Michigan counties take cuts of the exorbitant costs of inmate phone calls while children go months without seeing their parents in person.
The defamation lawsuit is the latest in Trump's campaign of lawfare against media outlets, but all of those suits have failed so far.
It took the Air Force four years to release redacted records of its quest to create spiffy new uniforms for the newest branch of the military.
The Institute for Justice says its data show that a century-old Supreme Court doctrine created a huge exception to the Fourth Amendment.
An AP survey found that most states have no mechanism to appeal denials of records requests, outside of filing a lawsuit.
Mississippi's prisons are falling apart, run by gangs, and riddled with sexual assaults, a Justice Department report says.
Criminal justice advocates say the evidence doesn't back up Republicans' claims that Louisiana's landmark 2017 reforms are to blame for violent crime.
The judge found that Food Not Bombs' activity was clearly expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
Greg and Teresa Almond lost their house and livelihood over a misdemeanor drug crime. Sheriff's deputies never got a warrant to search their house.
"It's crazy to me that somebody can be pulled over and have their cash and truck taken for an alleged crime, get acquitted of that crime, but they still never get their property back," Stitt said.
Food Not Bombs activists argue that feeding the needy is core political speech, and that they don't need the city's permission to do it.
The bills would classify police and correctional officers who kill people on the job as crime victims.
Florida Republicans and police unions insist that toothless civilian oversight boards are still more scrutiny than police deserve.
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.
"Responding officers should have immediately recognized the incident as an active shooter situation," the report found.
"The First Amendment prevents DeSantis from identifying a reform prosecutor and then suspending him to garner political benefit," U.S. Circuit Judge Jill Pryor wrote.
Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug arrests in this country every year.
Cabinet officials often use pseudonymous email accounts, but declaring them secret from records requests is another matter altogether.
Schools are already bad enough for kids. Let's not make it worse by taking tips from the people who've insisted you take your shoes off at the airport for 20 years.
The Supreme Court judges Eighth Amendment cases with "evolving standards of decency." Some conservative jurists don't like it.