Changes are coming to North Carolina’s prisons after five fatal assaults on prison workers and a Charlotte Observer investigation highlighting widespread dangers and corruption, the Observer reports. Among other measures, the state is building fences, buying batons and frisking employees. It is also installing new...
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration office that regulates pharmaceutical opioids told senators that a 2016 law has made enforcement more difficult in urgent circumstances and should be revised, the Washington Post reports. Demetra Ashley, who leads the agency’s Diversion Control Division, said Congress...
The public got a chance this week to weigh in on three proposals that would change Connecticut’s criminal justice system. One proposal would allow sex offenders to be removed earlier from a sex offender registry; another proposes a constitutional amendment on pretrial release and detention,...
While red-leaning states like Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia and Louisiana have made significant criminal justice reforms over the past decade, Florida’s GOP-led legislature has stood still. Thirty-three states have implemented such reforms since 2007, while Florida’s prison population continues to grow, with the state now spending...
In the years Nicholas Young was patrolling Washington, D.C.’s Metro transit system, a federal prosecutor said, an FBI agent was lying awake at night worrying about what he might do. As the first police officer to face terrorism charges in the U.S. goes to trial...
A national advocacy group released a report Wednesday assailing the grievous lack of medical treatment for addiction in prisons and jails, hours before the newly appointed Bureau of Prisons director was scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives. Table courtesy of The Sentencing Project While expanded...
Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. He filed an amicus brief supporting the cert petition in NIFLA v. Becerra, on which this essay is based, and will be doing so...
The massacre at Newtown, Ct.’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, which happened five years ago Thursday, prompted calls for tighter controls on guns and improved mental health treatment. Now, mental health care providers are waiting for promised boosts in funding, and many families are still battling...
Fourth Amendment rights could be better protected through certain actions by state governments and private agreements....
President Trump’s legal team believes Attorney General Jeff Session’s Justice Department and the FBI, more than special counsel Robert Mueller, are to blame for what they see as a witch hunt. They want an additional special counsel named to investigate the investigators, Axios reports. The...