The Oklahoma Board of Corrections’ request for a $1.53 billion annual appropriation, including $813 million for two new medium-security prisons, is “all wasted money — although absolutely necessary given the state’s justice policies,” the Tulsa World editorializes. The newspaper calls the large request “a symptom...
Over the last decade, 36 states have enacted some kind of criminal justice reform, eight of them more than once, Adam Gelb of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project tells the American Bar Association Journal. Such reforms can be a struggle to get...
Is cake speech? It’s time to find out. This week, we preview Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which the court will decide whether a baker may be compelled to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. But before we do, we...
After her oldest daughter was killed last year, Michelle McDaniel and her family isolated themselves in their small Texas town out of fear that the unknown killer could be standing in line with them at the grocery store or passing them on the street. Last...
Leaders of the two major U.S. criminology organizations have asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI director Christopher Wray to “immediately revise” the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for last year to restore data that previously was reported publicly. The Crime & Justice Research Alliance, which...
The popular herbal beverage kratom offers pain relief and mood enhancement, similar to prescription painkillers. Advocates say the substance, which presents little to no overdose risk, could help reduce the nation’s reliance on highly addictive and often deadly prescription painkillers. Some addiction experts argue the...