LA Passes Sentencing Reform, But It's Unlikely to Cut Incarceration Much

For the first time in a decade, a political consensus was emerging last year in Louisiana that it was time to cut the state's highest-in-the-nation...

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CA's Brown Backtracks on Plan to Shut Down Youth Prison System

Responding to pressure from probation chiefs, district attorneys, and prison guards, California Gov. Jerry Brown has done an about-face on a revolutionary...

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Detroit Plan To Lure Police, Firefighters Via Housing Gets 6 Takers

More than a year after Detroit Mayor Dave Bing launched a campaign to lure police and firefighters back to the city by selling rehabbed homes on the cheap...

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Opiate Surge: Large Percentages of Ohio Job Applicants Fail Drug Tests

Opiates are the new black, a pharmaceutical phenomenon fed by pill mills and pain, an epic addictive sickness that has become the leading cause of accidental...

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Texas Parole Rates Reach New Highs In Effort To Increase Supervision

Texas' parole rate for convicted felons has reached new highs, with the approval rate topping 40 percent this spring after hovering in the high 20s...

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Seattle Police: Federal Reform Proposals Wildly Unrealistic, Expensive

The Seattle Police Department is objecting to reforms proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice as wildly unrealistic and expensive, reports the Associated ...

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Should the George Zimmerman Case File Remain Closed to the Public?

Prosecutors of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting have cited new video evidence, a long list of witnesses and experts, and hints of a trail of...

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Nashville, High in Domestic Violence Homicides, Seeks More Prosecutors

Last year, there were 12,686 reported domestic violence crimes in Nashville's Davidson County, including nine homicides. Two domestic violence prosecutors ha...

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Texting While Walking Could Bring Danger, Ticket from Police

Officials fear that those who text and email while walking may be putting themselves in danger, says the Wilmington (DE) News-Journal. This spring, a woman w...

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TX Execution Flap Called Textbook Example of Need for ID Reform

Legislative sponsors of a law tightening procedures for police lineups faulted Corpus Christi, Tx., police for allowing eyewitnesses in a 1983 convenience st...

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TX Youth Detention Workers Blamed Violence on Rules Easing Discipline

Last year, as beatings and fights engulfed the 300-bed Texas lockup for teen offenders near Giddings, staff members were not surprised. "The blood had been c...

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PA Lacks Criminal Justice Policy, Contends Corrections Secretary Wetzel

Fix inefficiencies in Pennsylvania's corrections department that keep prisoners behind bars for months after they’ve been paroled and that cost...

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