Maryland’s prison population — which has been decreasing at a faster rate than anywhere else in the U.S. — continues to shrink, the Baltimore Sun reports.. From October 2017 through the end of last month, the number of people locked up in Maryland’s prisons fell...
Tennessee can use controversial drugs to execute inmates on death row despite concerns from defense attorneys and experts that doing so is “akin to burning someone alive,” a Nashville judge has ruled, The Tennessean reports. The ruling is a blow to 33 death row inmates...
There’s a way forward if we can separate isolated cases of improperly expressed attraction from cases bound up in broader prejudicial attitudes to women. In response to: Desire or Dominance?: Sexual Harassment’s Legal Maze More Responses Social Mores Have Changed; Biology Hasn’t by Suzanne Lucas In the legal wild west...
Gun control advocates are trying to stop an Austin-based nonprofit from posting gun schematics for 3-D printers online, reports the Dallas Morning News. Three gun-violence prevention groups asked a Texas federal judge on Thursday to block Defense Distributed from being able to publish the files....
A foreign policy that pursues peaceful trade and self-defense aligns well with what classical liberals know about the limits of politics in general....
Sexual harassment complaints in Kentucky’s prison system are frequent. The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting obtained more than 3,500 pages of sexual harassment complaints filed by employees in the last six years. That is nearly as many complaints as in all other Kentucky state agencies...