The debate over how often people use guns to protect themselves in the U.S. continues to smolder. Gary Kleck, a professor of criminology at Florida State University who is a controversial figure for gun control advocates, recently published a paper examining three surveys in the 1990s...
The Clark County, Wash., Sheriff’s Office has fired a deputy who wears and sells clothing affiliated with the Proud Boys, a far-right group known for its white nationalist rhetoric and frequent appearances in the middle of political violence, reports The Columbian of Vancouver. Deputy Erin...
Debate over New York City’s infamous Central Park Five case was revived as the city issued the first of 200,000 pages of documents related to the 1989 jogger rape case, the New York Daily News reports. Five teenagers languished in prison for more than a...
Phone calls between prison inmates and their families and friends often are timed, recorded and prohibitively expensive. It can cost 21 cents per minute to make calls between states — and for calls within states, rates can exceed $1 per minute. As a result, phone...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will issue some pardons before he leaves office. The term-limited Haslam has not decided whether he’ll grant clemency in the highly publicized case of Cyntoia Brown, or if he’ll stop an upcoming execution, The Tennessean reports. “We haven’t done any (pardons)...
Cybersecurity experts are raising concerns about plans for the U.S. Census Bureau to use digital questionnaires for the first time in 2020, Time reports. Eleven former government cybersecurity employees demanded the Census Bureau and Department of Commerce outline any planned security measures in a letter...