Tens of thousands of people wanted by law enforcement officials have been removed this year from the FBI criminal background check database that prohibits “fugitives from justice” from buying guns, the Washington Post reports. The names were taken out after the FBI in February changed...
The term crimmigration was coined by law professor Juliet Stumpf in 2006, as a shorthand for the increasing overlap of the nation’s criminal justice and immigration control systems. Other academics quickly took up the term, using it to describe the policies of the Obama administration as...
The closure of two New York City-based websites, Gothamist and DNAinfo, alarms anyone who cares about the future of local journalism. But it also raises additional questions about the future of local crime reporting. A few days before the two sites closed, I ran into a former...
In what is being called the “Post-Weinstein era,” victims of sexual assault and harassment are finally being believed. This no doubt is overdue, but in the context of rape, believing the victim will not be enough. Three reforms are essential to how we convict and punish...
A small army of college students is helping prisoners pass high school equivalency exams and, where the opportunity exists, to earn college degrees. These volunteers’ ranks are regularly replenished by recruitment from 30 different universities. They march under the banner of the Petey Greene Program. For the...
Former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, reports the Lansing State Journal. All but one woman was abused during a medical appointment. Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina set a sentencing hearing...