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Philly nonprofit called "Safehouse" wants to address opioid overdoses through providing a, well, safehouse, where people can more safely use drugs. The feds sue in 2020. Third…

Allegation: Following multiple days of 100-plus degree heat inside Colorado City, Tex. prison, nurse sees inmate naked and nonverbal on the floor of his cell with four trays of untouched food beside him. She encourages him "to get up and get on with his day." He dies.…

New York boy disappears in 1979. Over 30 years later, a man with low IQ and a long history of mental illness and hallucinations is prosecuted for murder and kidnapping based on his confession—which occurred only after many hours of interrogations and before Miranda warnings,…

Remember NFTs? They were like Pogs, but you could only look at them. Well, there's an online marketplace for them called OpenSea, and it would highlight specific NFTs, which typically caused their price to increase. One…

Following an attack on a prison official, New York inmate is sentenced to 14 years of solitary. After his term is up, he is kept in solitary on the grounds that he's a danger to the general prison population. He is held there for years, despite apparently good behavior. He challenges his…

Federal court proceedings throughout New Jersey were abruptly canceled on Monday because of uncertainty over whether Alina Habba had the authority to serve as acting U.S. attorney —…

A U.S. District Judge in the District of New Jersey has withdrawn an opinion after a letter for one of the attorneys pointed out the opinion contained "a series of errors," including nonexistent fake quotes and misstated case outcomes attributed to the parties (article available…

Federal judges have begun fielding requests from criminal defense lawyers to be taken off cases, or even have charges thrown out, after the judiciary ran out of money to pay certain attorneys who represent low-income defendants (article available here).

These panel attorneys, who are…

Ronald J. Tabak, a tireless criminal justice and civil rights advocate, died on July 22, 2025, at age 75. See also Death Penalty Information Center tribute and…

Federal judges in New Jersey invoked a its power to remove interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, installing her top assistant as…