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Oklahoma City police detain driver whose passenger is wanted for failing to appear in court. The passenger is arrested—but then officers hang around for another ten minutes, until a drug-sniffing dog finally shows up, takes a lap around the car, and alerts. Driver: Sniff happens but this delay…

Cameras capture two men and a woman arriving via Jeep at an Artesia, N.M. motel, leaving two hours later with the woman sobbing, and the men returning three hours later without her.…

As part of the Training Division's continued efforts to spotlight and challenge the systemic and legal issues in pretrial detention, we report the latest from pretrial detainees in Prince George’s County, Md.: The judges here followed bail policies that arbitrarily denied us a shot at release.…

Today, the Supreme Court by a 5 to 4 vote held that District Courts may apply more lenient law at First Step Act re-sentencings. Hewitt v. United States, No. 23-1002 (June 26, 2025) (opinion). Former Assistant…

Vietnam will end capital punishment for eight categories of serious crime – including embezzlement, attempts to overthrow the government and sabotaging state infrastructure, state-run…

This morning, the Supreme Court held 6 to 3 that death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez has standing to bring his § 1983 claim challenging Texas’s post-conviction DNA testing procedures under the Due Process Clause. Gutierrez v…

This morning, by vote of 7 to 2, the Supreme Court held that a district court considering whether to revoke a defendant’s term of supervised release may not consider §3553(a)(2)(A), which covers retribution vis-à-vis the defendant’s underlying criminal offense.…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has issued a press release about an internal memorandum to all wardens in the BOP stating, “To be clear, FSA [First Step Act] and SCA [Second Chance Act…

Authorities in Minnesota said Monday that the man arrested in a Saturday attack that killed one state lawmaker and left another wounded had a "hit list" of 45 elected officials — all Democrats.…

Due to low compensation rates causing bar advocates to decline court-appointed cases, Massachusetts is facing a surge of…