IN JUSTICE TODAY

We were both speeding on the highway’s one-lane exit ramp, but apparently I wasn’t going fast enough.

On May 23, 2013, Khari Illidge, a 25-year-old Black man in Lee County, Alabama, was face down and hogtied, with a 385-pound police officer…

The history of child sex abuse legislation in the United States follows a well-worn pattern: a chilling incident rouses public anger and…

Earlier this year, a U.S. district judge threw out criminal charges against Clark County cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons, and a…

Houston has come up with a new way to make life harder for people leaving prison on parole: by forcing the programs that provide them with…

In the spring of 1983, Donald Mairena witnessed a shooting at New Orleans’ Latin American Club. He chased after the shooter and later told…

On Wednesday, May 16, 16-year-old Rosalyn “Bird” Holmes was able to walk out of prison and hug her mother. Though the teenager has yet to…

Todd Entrekin, the sheriff of the small Alabama county of Etowah, recently found himself in the national spotlight when an Alabama…

M. thought she was doing the right thing. She had become dependent on opioids, but when she learned she was pregnant, she immediately tried…

On December 28, 2017, 28-year-old Andrew Finch of Wichita, Kansas, opened his front door to a horde of shouting police officers. Ten…

A widely shared, recent piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer tells the story of a woman’s grief six months after her husband was murdered…

What I am about to tell you is deeply problematic. And it makes sense that of all states, it’s happening in Louisiana — which, with its…

Immediately after a heated debate last Thursday that focused on police accountability, the criminalization of homelessness, and the use of…

Law enforcement’s power to seize property suspected of being used in criminal activity regardless of whether the owner has been convicted…