Tag: Criminal Justice
The federal sentencing reforms that Donald Trump endorsed last week could shorten the terms of 2,700 or so drug offenders who are already in prison and perhaps another 2,200 who are sent there each year. ...
Last year, Wyoming decided to allow voting by all those who have completed their sentences for nonviolent felonies. Alabama restored rights to 60,000 low-level offenders.
Fake news is a massive problem on the right — as even GOP Sen. Mike Lee is apparently realizing.
The president had endorsed a reform bill, but that didn’t matter to Mitch.
With hate crimes surging nationwide, not a single Republican will sign on as a co-sponsor to a bill to address the problem.
Just before he left, the departing attorney-general adopted a policy to limit the Justice Department’s ability to oversee abusive police departments
The inquiry stems from stories by ProPublica that showed the DEA’s vetted unit in the country has had a history of leaking sensitive information to drug traffickers.
In a surprise decision, embattled Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) announced Monday he would be running for another term after all.
In the last decade or so, as police shootings of unarmed black men and women have become more thoroughly scrutinized, I’ve kept my own private accounting of the worst of them.
Last week, the California legislature approved a bill that would authorize "overdose prevention programs" in San Francisco where people can inject their own drugs in a safe, sanitary and supervised environment.
