A new study from the Council on Criminal Justice finds "roughly one third of veterans report having been arrested and booked into jail at least once in their lives, compared to fewer than one fifth of non-veterans." Military.com reports on the causes for vets getting...
If someone has done a full and honest assessment of Bill Clinton's presidency, I would really like to see it. It is stunning how many ills Clinton's two terms in office inflicted, directly or indirectly, on the American people and the world. Some of the worst stuff...
Now that folks are coming around on the idea that law enforcement needs serious structural transformation in this country, let's make our argument a little more robust. The tiniest fraction of people get killed by police. It is not useful to think of this problem as...
Miami Herald: After brutal beating of now-paralyzed Florida inmate, women take to social media to protest On Saturday morning, a vigil was held outside the compound, the second in recent weeks, in part to protest the beating of Cheryl Weimar, a 51-year-old inmate who...
Philip Weiss talks about the opposing camps of the democratic party, one that's close with the zionist Israel lobby, and the other, younger one that views the plight of the Palestinians as a civil rights issue echoing America's own. Most American Jews support a two...
Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff joins the show to discuss his article for TheAppeal.org "The Perverse Incentives of Punishment." Pfaff begins by sharing the story of a sheriff in Alabama who kept the remaining funds from feeding prisoners in the county jail for...
Thank you. Thank you to the Reason Foundation, and to the judges who saw merit in my work and honored me with this award. It's especially validating to get an award named after Bastiat—an award for which people like Milton Friedman and James Buchanan once served as...
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Southeast Texas — In October of 2011, 41-year-old Robert Montano was found unresponsive in his cell. He had been booked by a county deputy five days before on suspicion of being under the influence of the...
Journalism, Activism, Hacktivism and a New Civic Platform Barrett Brown thinks big. Brown was released from federal prison on November 29 after four years of incarceration for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor. The hack — for which the hacker group...
A surplus number of prosecutors needed some make-work, of course.
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