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Trump's Death Penalty Order a Challenge to the 8th Amendment Jan. 28, 2025
The first Trump administration carried out more executions than any president in at least a century.... Read More
Incarcerated Indentured Servants Fight Wildfires Jan. 14, 2025
Southern California is experiencing the worst winter wildfires in 40 years. Winter fires are unusual... Read More
Capital Punishment Still Serves Its Purpose. Don't Abolish It. Nov. 19, 2021
Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the ... Read More
September 8, 2021 Sep. 08, 2021
Dear Annie: I have been with my boyfriend, "Hugo," for 11 years. I recently discovered that for the ... Read More
Deserving of a Second Chance Dec. 19, 2019
Following grading for the fall semester, I turned my attention to a gripping documentary that I beli... Read More
Federal Criminal Justice Reform Takes a Big First Step Forward Jul. 26, 2019
Within hours after the First Step Act went into effect last Friday, 3,100 inmates qualified for rele... Read More
Without Medicaid, Justice Reform Is a Con Apr. 05, 2019
During the final days of March, President Donald Trump proclaimed that April would be the "Second Ch... Read More
Arrest Wardens to Stop Cruel and Unusual Punishment Feb. 15, 2019
"Sick and frantic" was how inmates at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn were des... Read More
Trump Can Build the Nation and Save It at the Same Time Jan. 25, 2019
Even during a congressional closedown, some Washington insiders' spirits are up, optimistic that 201... Read More
Foreign-Made Goods Flood U.S Federal Prisons Feb. 17, 2018
Have you ever watched that recurring ABC evening-news segment called "Made in America"? It highlight... Read More
Obama Churns Out Final-Year Pardons Sep. 01, 2016
On Tuesday, Aug. 30, President Obama commuted the sentences of 111 federal drug offenders. In his fi... Read More
Crime and Illiteracy Aug. 06, 2014
An extensive article in a past edition of The Dallas Morning News describes a program to fight illit... Read More
