The number of California inmates who’ve been prescribed psychiatric drugs has jumped about 25 percent in five years, Kaiser Health News reports. These inmates now account for one-fifth of the state’s county jail population. The increase might reflect the growing number of inmates with mental...
Robert Earl Butts, a Georgia prisoner convicted of killing an off-duty prison guard, is set to die by lethal injection Friday night, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles on Wednesday delayed Butts’ execution to consider new information from the death...
More than a year into the Chicago Police Department’s biggest hiring surge in decades, 14 of the city’s 22 police districts now have fewer beat cops than they did when the push was announced, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The city hired more than 1,400 cadets...
The Volkswagen emissions scandal reached the highest echelons of the company on Thursday when its former chief executive was charged with conspiracy in the company’s rigging of diesel vehicles to feign compliance with federal pollution standards, the New York Times reports. The indictment of Martin...
The FBI, which is used to making headlines for nabbing crooks, has been grabbing the spotlight for unwanted reasons: fired leaders, texts between lovers and, most of all, attacks by President Trump. “I don’t care what channel it’s on,” says Tom O’Connor, who leads the...
Licensed marijuana “tasting rooms” could be operating in Colorado by this time next year if Gov. John Hickenlooper signs a first-of-its-kind bill that state lawmakers sent to his desk Thursday, the Denver Post reports. The bill allows adults at recreational marijuana retailers to consume small...
In 1995, I began my mental health counseling career working as an oncology support and education specialist with patients and caregivers at a rural cancer treatment center in a hospital setting. It was the first of several positions at cancer treatment centers, university research departments and...
The number of deadly police shootings of unarmed people has generally declined since 2015 even as the tally of fatal shootings by law enforcement is on pace to hit nearly 1,000 for the fourth year in a row, reports the Washington Post. Fatal shootings of...
Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to reduce the amount of time legal professionals spend on simple, repetitive tasks that prevent them from practicing law or pursuing larger, more profitable clients. Smart business owners realize that strategic investment in their business operations can help...
Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf called for criminal justice reform at an event held symbolically in the shadow of Independence Hall on Thursday, reports NBC10 in Philadelphia. Mill, whose legal name is Robert Williams, said he was raised in a neighborhood where...