An estimated 13,000 young people are being held at immigrant youth detention centers around the U.S., trapped in a shadowy world that evokes the penal practices of Communist-era authoritarian governments like East Germany, according to attorneys and youth advocates. The advocates, representing some of the leading...
The bitterly polarized Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court. The near party-line vote was 50-48, capping a fight that seized the national conversation after claims emerged that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted women three decades ago, which he emphatically denied,...
The Journalist’s Resource at Harvard University has published new guides for journalists on gun issues. More than four in 10 U.S. adults live in a gun-owning household, and nearly five in 10 say they grew up with guns in the home,says the Pew Research Center....
It’s become a refrain among those in the criminal justice system, and it was repeated again Thursday by law enforcement authorities from Ramsey and Hennepin counties in the Twin Cities area, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. “We can’t arrest our way out of the...
The FBI is looking into possible civil rights violations in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County jail, where six people have died this year over three months, reports Cleveland.com. Whether the inquiry was prompted by the deaths is unclear. Conditions at the jail, where the population exceeds capacity...
A disabled Vietnam veteran and disbarred lawyer who had boasted about his rifle-shooting prowess is the man suspected of shooting seven law enforcement officers near Florence, S.C., killing one of them, the Charleston Post and Courier reports. Frederick Hopkins, 74, was taken into custody after...