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In some Wisconsin counties, inmates pay an average of $390 a month in pay-to-stay fees. Advocates say such fees can criminalize poverty, according to an investigation by Wisconsin Watch.
The Justice Department did not explain Adler’s departure. Last week, he issued prepared remarks saying that crime was falling in the U.S. as another DOJ agency said it was rising.
Risk assessments “can increase consistency, transparency and accuracy” of judicial decisions, said Jennifer Skeem, associate dean of research at the University of California, Berkeley.
A national survey of women ages 18 to 44 found that more than 3 million reported they first experienced sex in the form of forcible or coercive rape as teenagers by much older men.
A California paleogeneticist known for extracting DNA information from fossilized bones has been quietly working for 18 months with law enforcement authorities to solve cold-case murders using a technique to extract needed genetic information from hair samples that lack a root.
Eighteen years after the U.S. began holding enemy fighters and terrorism suspects at a remote outpost in Cuba, its costs make it the most expensive detention program in the world as costs rise and prisoner count drops.
While the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein rendered moot his victims’ civil case seeking to overturn a decade-old plea bargain, a federal judge held open the prospect of giving Epstein’s victims a forum to confront federal prosecutors over their handling of the case.
The Manhattan DA’s office is investigating how President Trump and the Trump Organization handled hush money payments to a former porn star.
Parole numbers in Alabama’s overcrowded prisons have plummeted since a triple-murder last year by a parolee. Now the new parole chief has suspended all parole and pardons hearings, blaming a new victim-notification law.
Competing measures put forward by Baltimore’s mayor and City Council would seek to end the practice of concealing details in the city’s settlements with plaintiffs in police-brutality suits and other litigation.
Three months after San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to shut down the city’s juvenile hall by the end of 2021 to end the jailing of young people, a new proposal by probation officials to expand therapeutic services while holding teens in custody has angered supporters of the search for alternatives to incarceration.
A near doubling of NRA Facebook advertising after the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings came more quickly than a similar uptick after last year’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Several Democratic presidential candidates called for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s impeachment following publication of excerpts from a new book that adds to the allegations of sexual misconduct in college and questions his truthfulness during his 2018 confirmation battle.
A previously undisclosed Russian counterintelligence operation hacked into devices used by elite FBI surveillance teams and may have made other electronic incursions into some of America’s most sensitive intelligence systems, Yahoo News reports.
Since last year’s shutdown of Backpage.com, three other websites have come to dominate the online sex-for-sale industry and have been the subjects of a years-long investigation. Although their offshore web hosts complicate the legal issues, authorities say they have leverage through U.S. companies.
Moyers received TCR’s annual “Justice Trailblazer” award at a John Jay College dinner Feb. 15. See the video of his remarks here.