For 200 years, Remington has been one of the most famous names in guns, supplying arms to soldiers in the civil war, both world wars and to generations of gun enthusiasts. Now it has met its match: the gun-friendly presidency of Donald Trump, The Guardian...
On Saturday, a 45-year-old man fatally shot his parents at their home in Kentucky and drove to an apartment, where he shot and killed his girlfriend and her mother before turning the gun on himself. Gunman Joseph Nickell had a history that included domestic violence...
When Kristan Morgan joined the U.S. Bureau of Prisons three years ago, the nurse expected to care for the chronically sick in the nation’s largest correctional system. She was abruptly plucked from a busy medical unit in Tallahassee to pull guard duty in cell blocks,...
Financial and technology industries alike are combining in a grand way, giving rise to the birth of blockchain outside of its normal working conditions. Blockchain is a distributed digital ledger designed to power and back cryptocurrencies—the most popular of which is bitcoin. Due to the nature...
In its first year, New Jersey’s historic bail overhaul slashed by 20 percent the number of people charged with minor crimes locked up until trial because they couldn’t post bail, according to a new report from the state judiciary, says NJ.com. The problem is that the...
Each year, the federal courts sentence tens of thousands of criminal defendants. According to the United States Sentencing Commission, for example, the federal courts pronounced 66,926 criminal sentences in fiscal year 2016. Given that quantity, and given the complexity of calculating the applicable sentencing range...