Michael Graczyk watches people die for a living. Year after year, when the state of Texas would strap an inmate to the gurney in the Huntsville death chamber, Graczyk was there to pay witness. After 45 years and 429, he is retiring from his full-time...
For decades, the criminal justice system in the United States has convicted defendants on the basis of forensic evidence–some of which we now know to be highly suspect or “junk” science. But years after the National Academy of Sciences raised questions about hair strand, shoe...
Much of the attention given to the criminal justice system focuses on felony conviction and mass incarceration. But the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison or jail time. “Misdemeanorland,” written by Issa Kohler-Hausmann, an Associate...
A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday to block blueprints for 3-D-printed guns from being distributed online, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ruling came in response to legal action Monday by nine states seeking to block a pro-gun group, Defense...
The entire police department of a small town in Massachusetts resigned Monday evening. The 1,233 residents of Blandford were advised to call the State Police should they need emergency services, reports Patch.com. The Police Department posted on Facebook shortly before 9 p.m. that its members...
Many residents of Elkhart County, In., which backed Donald Trump for president, oppose plans for a federal detention center there for alleged illegal immigrants, the Associated Press reports. Since 2011, contractors have proposed detention centers in seven communities near Chicago, with activists blocking several. Demand...