“Zero youth detention now!” read a sign at a protest on Tuesday against the building of a new 112-bed jail for youth in Seattle. It was a little awkward because just the day before, five youth between the ages of 17 and 19 were charged...
Philadelphia leaders have cut the city’s jail population by a striking 28 percent in two years, with help from a MacArthur Foundation grant. City Council officials and advocates want to know why costs have not fallen accordingly, Philly.com reports. “I just can’t understand why the...
On Tuesday, Joseph Simons was sworn in as the new Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. The five-member Commission will soon be at full strength, as Simons is set to be joined by four other new FTC Commissioners, each of which were confirmed for seven-year...
Texas and six other states filed a federal law suit challenging the constitutionality of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, reports Politico. The case is the latest legal twist over the fate of DACA, which grants work permits to 694,000 undocumented immigrants brought...
Paintball skirmishes are moving from the fields and woods of U.S. suburbs into the streets of some cities, wreaking havoc in the form of property damage, injuries and, in some cases, escalating to deadly violence involving guns that shoot bullets instead of balls of paint,...
Encounters with the Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) inside the U.S. Encounters have proven deadly for at least 97 people – citizens and non-citizens – since 2003, a count drawn from settlement payment data, court records, use of force logs, incident reports and news...
Law firms and attorneys know that the likelihood of a cyberattack is high and acknowledge that the industry is under siege from cyber criminals. Unbeknownst to law firms, attackers have evolved from opportunistic and transactional attacks to more bespoke operations that target specific firms, or...
Two decades ago, amid controversy over police shootings in Washington, D.C., officers were largely barred from firing at moving cars. The rules didn’t apply if someone in the car was firing at police, but officials concluded that in most cases, the practice was dangerous and...
Royal Caribbean Chairman Richard Fain remains the highest paid executive in the cruise industry. Mr. Fain is the highest paid cruise executive for the second year in a row. Mr. Fain was paid $13,343,413 last year (2017), an increase of nearly three million dollars, from...
In a tense meeting in March with special counsel Robert Mueller, President Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Mueller responded that he could issue a subpoena for the president to appear...