criminal justice

Do you wish you had been at Folsom Prison-- although maybe not as an inmate-- to see Johnny Cash perform two shows there on January 13, 1968? This is a recording that was released from those shows, which was a multi-platinum smash. I bet you've already heard it.Yesterday I had lunch with California Senate president Kevin de León to talk about music. (He's a huge fan of a lot of the same bands I love-- like Depeche Mode, U2, Fleetwood Mac, Green Day.) But what he was really excited about was Common.

Prisoner dignity is an issue that is all too easy for bureaucrats and the unassuming public to push aside when there are more “pressing” issues at stake. For those more concerned with budget lines and keeping their jobs than the humanity of the alleged criminal class, incarcerated individuals become nothing more than a number. As a result, prisoner “needs” are limited only to what the state deems necessary to survival.

Are private prisons worse than others? It’s hard to tell. But if they are, we should all remember that the customer is king and if there is anyone to blame for the poor state of private prisons, it’s their only customer: the government.

All an inside trader does is act on private information that more accurately reflects the future value of a financial asset than the current price does. He buys or sells that asset at a price that someone else voluntarily accepts. He does nothing that damages the ultimate value of the asset. Nor does he hurt the broader financial marketplace. If anything, his trading slightly pushes the asset price toward a more appropriate value. What's wrong with that?

(ANTIMEDIA) The ACLU issued a “travel alert” in the state of Texas Wednesday, warning “anyone planning to travel to Texas in the near future to anticipate the possible violation of their constitutional rights when stopped by law enforcement.”

"But as truly terrifying as the violent police state has grown to be, the widespread footage of the Rodney King beating did help foster the birth of civilian justice, where cameras are able to combat badges by showing a side of the story that is seldom seen and often left out of the courtroom"

-by Jason WestinCongressman John Culberson is a career politician, first elected to office nearly 30 years ago. Prior to politics, like many politicians he went to law school, but apparently he has forgotten how the law works. In an interview with the Houston Chronicle in March, Culberson said "I'm the one who's going to make the final decisions, along with the president.

Despite the polls in the run up to November 8, 2016, and the post-election shenanigans that continue to this day, the United States has a new President, and it is not Hillary Clinton. There are many reasons for this, and Charles Ortel’s dogged, two-year investigation of the Clintons’ predatory humanitarianism is a major one. He is not yet done.

2016 In Review: America Off The Rails, Part 9Um, Rudy, near the end there, do you realize what you're saying?by NoahBefore I get to the winner of my little Republican Of The Year contest (in tomorrow's installment), I thought it would be downright mean of me to leave out some other participants. I call them not just deplorables but also Dishonorable Mentions.I also want to mention that I am not one who believes in that every-participant-gets-a-trophy nonsense. But I do want to give my No. 4 pairing below an award. I did, after all, declare Michigan's own Lex Luthor, Gov.

An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz.
The racial bias that ProPublica found in a formula used by courts and parole boards to forecast future criminal behavior arises inevitably from the test’s design, according to new research.