2011-02-15 10:03
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Commentary on events in the U.S. system of justice from a social science perspective.
2011-01-29 01:48
Even with judicial blessing, the conduct of executions in this country is a shambles. In Arizona and Georgia, the sodium thiopental used in executions has possibly been ineffective and alm… Read More
2011-01-18 11:01
The centerpiece of Mr. Daniels’s approach is a set of reforms governing sentencing and parole. Judges would be allowed to fit sentences to crimes and have the flexibility to impose s… Read More
2011-01-07 18:44
We can no longer afford business as usual with prisons. The criminal justice system is broken, and conservatives must lead the way in fixing it.Read more... Conservatives broke it and now… Read More
2011-01-03 08:19
Sara Kruzan was 16 when she lured her former pimp into a motel room, shot and killed him and took his money. The terrible crime was committed in Riverside County by a girl who had been sex… Read More
2010-12-06 16:57
Word quickly reached top executives at Abbott Laboratories that a Baltimore cardiologist, Dr. Mark Midei, had inserted 30 of the company’s cardiac stents in a single day in August 2… Read More
2010-12-06 16:37
In 2005, when a federal court took a snapshot of California’s prisons, one inmate was dying each week because the state failed to provide adequate health care. Adequate does not mean… Read More
2010-12-06 13:16
Who really profits from the spew of bills recently advanced by the legislators across the country, and here in Texas, that make immigration enforcement a state matter?The answer is private… Read More
2010-11-28 20:38
IN VERACRUZ, MEXICO Exploiting loopholes in the global economy, Mexican crime syndicates are importing mass quantities of the cold medicines and common chemicals used to manufacture metham… Read More
2010-11-17 19:15
The British government has decided to pay former detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, tens of millions of dollars in compensation and conduct an independent investigation into its rol… Read More
2010-11-09 15:06
"This is the condition where the death penalty was meant to be applied. The crime was so heinous, and there was so little remorse shown on the part of the defendant. He sat there with… Read More
2010-11-09 00:34
Over the years, the federal government has done far less than it should — and far less than the law requires — to guarantee the safety of Appalachia’s miners. So it was a… Read More
2010-10-28 12:40
Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal.Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch."The gentlema… Read More
2010-10-27 14:58
Arizona executed a man last night after the US supreme court lifted a stay granted when the state refused to reveal how it obtained one of the drugs used in the death chamber from a Briti… Read More
2010-10-27 14:06
GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the company for years knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an… Read More
2010-10-25 14:27
This is a court of law, not a court of justice. Oliver Wendel HolmesTroubling questions over Georgia's controversial death penalty system will remain unresolved for now, after the Supreme C… Read More
2010-10-25 14:12
According to a report released Friday by the Marijuana Arrest Research Project for the Drug Policy Alliance and the N.A.A.C.P. and led by Prof. Harry Levine, a sociologist at the City Uni… Read More
2010-10-23 14:36
RALEIGH, N.C. — A top North Carolina House Democrat whose daughter was murdered 25 years ago said Wednesday he wants the state Republican Party to retract a mailer it sent out alleg… Read More
2010-10-22 04:25
In his decades working as a forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Coons of Austin has testified at dozens of death penalty trials across Texas in which he opined about how defendants would be… Read More
2010-10-21 02:37
Just last week, I wrote about a California district's controversial move to ban sex offenders from celebrating Halloween, but Tulare County is hardly alone. Police are gearing up for simi… Read More
2010-10-18 16:44
It was an unusual hearing. The subject at the center of it all, Cameron Todd Willingham, was not present. After being convicted of murdering his three children in a 1991 house fire, he was… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
H 222 would prohibit the governing bodies of Idaho colleges and universities from regulating the lawful possession of a firearm while on campus. Eight other states are currently considerin… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A generation after record levels of youth crime spurred a nationwide movement to prosecute more teenagers as adults, a consensus is emerging that many young delinquents have been mishandle… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The federal government's reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks once again returned to the Supreme Court on Wednesday as justices considered whether former attorney general John D. Ash… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The death of a 2-year-old Houston boy from a rare infection blamed on contaminated alcohol wipes may be only the first casualty tied to allegedly shoddy sterilization practices by a Wiscon… Read More
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