There are a growing number of reports that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is searching the electronic devices of passengers on domestic flights in the U.S., says the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has sued the federal agency for records, The Guardian reports. The...
A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on bases, the Associated Press reports. Reports of assaults and...
The Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Mexico is situated on the Yucatán Peninsula of the country, west of Cuba. It consists of the resort city of Cancún on the Northeast of the Pennisula on the Caribbean coast, with Playa del Carmen and Tulum to its...
Colorado prosecutors filed more than 15,200 felony drug cases in 2017, twice as many as they did in 2012, says a new report that has prompted renewed calls for sentencing reforms that send low-level drug offenders to treatment rather than prison, reports the Denver Post....
The overall impact of sentencing reforms on the U.S. prison population has been quite modest, says The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group for prison alternatives. With 1.5 million people in prison in 2016, the prison population remains larger than the total population of 11 states....
We’re almost four months into 2018, and now that you’re beyond the first few weeks of the year, it’s a great time to set your goals for 2018 and define a plan to help you accomplish them. We’d argue that one of your most important...