On TV crime shows like CSI, NCIS, and Law & Order, science gets the bad guys. In real life, "science" often ensnares the innocent. Former NYPD Detective Harry Houck gets annoyed when TV shows make forensic science look infallible. "You watch a detective get down...
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How One Woman’s Fight to Save Her Family Helped Lead to a Mass Exoneration
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 23, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Clarissa Glenn’s troubles with the law began on Mother’s Day, 2004, when she was on her way to the Pancake House with her three sons—Ben, Jr., Gerard, and Deon. They left their apartment in the Ida B. Wells Homes, a housing project on the South Side of Chicago, to...
Man Shoots Intruder, Turns Out to Be Cop — Gets 13.5 Years
by John Vibes | May 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Tyler Harrell was found guilty of a charge of aggravated assault today in a case that should concern anyone who cares about the right to self-defense. Back in 2016, Harrell grabbed his AK-47 after being awaken by a loud bang. With him and his mom believing his house...
St. Louis Town Agrees to Stop Bankrolling Itself by Fining Its Residents into the Poorhouse
by Scott Shackford | May 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
A small St. Louis suburb has agreed to stop trying bankroll its government with a vicious regime of petty fines so excessive that the town has cited more than a third of its population. Credit goes to the Institute for Justice, which sued the tiny town of Pagedale...
A Picture Can Be Worth a Thousands Words
by Sheldon Richman | May 22, 2018 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
Killing Gaza: New documentary features Life Under Siege
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 19, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice
On August 13, as a five-day ceasefire took hold in Israel’s 51 day war with Gaza, Max Blumenthal and I headed for the hyper-militarized border terminal at Erez crossing. We had no plans to make a documentary at that point. I brought along my camera and shotgun...
The Perverse Incentives of Punishment
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 19, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Todd Entrekin, the sheriff of the small Alabama county of Etowah, recently found himself in the national spotlight when an Alabama newspaper discovered that over the course of three years he pocketed at least $750,000 budgeted for feeding the people detained in his...
Thoughts on Palestine
by Sheldon Richman | May 19, 2018 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
For the record, the children of Abraham didn't exactly acquire Canaan through Lockean homesteading. Joshua (assuming the fable is true) was a genocidal conqueror. Revs. Robert Jeffress and John Hagee opened and closed the U.S. embassy dedication in Jerusalem. What's...
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