When cities can't offer cops more money, they offer them job protection
Plus: Prison economy makes rural legislators less likely to support criminal justice reform, the ongoing injustice of civil commitment, how SCOTUS made it easier for cops to kill
College student loses $11K because his bag smelled like marijuana
Plus: The case for erasing our borders, the role of prosecutors in mass incarceration, and fact-checking the new alleged crime wave
No substance better illustrates the destructive and maddening cycle of our drug laws.
Plus: Oklahoma used the wrong execution drug in January, police agencies withholding shooting videos from the public, and more good news from California.
When it comes to disclosing code that can put people in prison, justice and transparency should take priority over proprietary concerns
College student says Richmond, Va. police beat him bloody, threatened him, lied about assault
Plus: More troubling questions about the Waco biker shootout, Sesame Street meets incarceration nation and mass neglect in a Kentucky jail.
Undoing wrongful convictions ought to be a matter of urgency. The legacy of Jim Hood and Anita Alvarez suggest it just isn't.
