The Oakland Police Department’s failure to make arrests in the homicides of black members of the community as well as to provide support and assistance…
Photo by encouraging quotes via Flickr Although a public health approach to the deepening fentanyl crisis could yield best results, legislators are “dusting off” a…
John Kapoor. Photo courtesy CBSNews John Kapoor, a former billionaire who founded opioid maker Insys Therapeutics Inc., was sentenced to 5½ years in federal prison…
In one of the country’s most remarkable partnerships, Milwaukee’s District Attorney and the head of the Wisconsin Public Defender’s office have crossed turf lines to…
A storm of criticism over New York’s new bail reform law appears to have shifted public opinion against it. According to a new poll, the…
The wide-ranging anticrime law passed by Congress in 1994 generally is known as a “tough on crime” measure because it increased penalties for some federal…
Photo by Shannon O’Toole via Flickr While a majority of Americans agree that solitary confinement is inhumane, the main barrier to abolition is the frustration…
The Trump administration quietly announced on Wednesday new visa restrictions for pregnant women in an effort to stop what President Trump has deemed “birth tourism,”…
Both violent and property crime reports to local police declined in the first half of 2019 compared to the same time frame the previous year,…
It was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2003. I was seated in the passenger seat of my then-boyfriend’s rental car. We were legally parked…