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Questions about former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s sentence prompted a new study that found stark disparities in prison terms handed down by federal judges that ranged, in over half the nation’s 155 federal courthouses, from 23 months to as much as four years or more.
Deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl skyrocketed more than 1,000 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The huge increase in female incarceration in recent decades has overwhelmed American prisons in their health care of pregnant women. A new study takes stock of the numbers of pregnancies, births, and more in an attempt to standardize the quality of maternal health.
Citing a number of attacks on houses of worship and dismissive comments by the president and FBI, a group of civil rights and faith leaders want a meeting with the FBI director to press for more enforcement.
Few of the people who are intended beneficiaries of a Michigan law allowing for expungement of criminal convictions actually obtain this relief, according to a new report. Reasons also include “fear and mistrust” of justice system.
More than 30 research and advocacy organizations around the country will participate in a National Partnership for Pretrial Justice aimed at developing alternatives to money bail and pretrial detention, Arnold Ventures announced Tuesday.
Acts of terrorism are likely to result in more ‘social solidarity,’ according to the journal Psychological Science, which published a study analyzing Twitter responses in France to the 2015 attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
At least six “clandestine” shelters hold unaccompanied immigrant children whose locations have not been disclosed to their attorneys in a possible violation of the agreement governing oversight of the federal government’s shelter operators, says a lawyer suing the government in a class action.
As drug-overdose fatalities overall are leveling off, the Drug Enforcement Administration reports a rise in meth originating from Mexican cartels. Meth seizures were up 118 percent from 2010 to 2017.
Research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows prescriptions lasting 30 days or longer rose from 18.3 percent of opioid prescriptions to 24.9 percent. Longer opioid use has been tied to a higher risk of addiction and overdose.