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The Louisville Metro Police Department routinely uses excessive force and practices “an aggressive style of policing” against Black people, the Justice Department said Wednesday after an investigation launched following the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. (…

Allegation: Inmate at Rush City, Minn. correctional facility is attacked with a shank when he declines to pay off his cellmate's drug debt. He (and his family) repeatedly asked the prison for a transfer to another facility, but officials decline (in part because the assailant attests "the issue…

The University of Maryland announces its newly-built 70,000-square foot state-of-the-art School of Public Policy building will…

The Department of Justice on Friday launched an application for eligible individuals to receive certificate of proof that they were pardoned under the Oct. 6, 2022, proclamation by President Biden (…

A misconduct complaint has been lodged against a San Diego, California, federal judge who recently handcuffed a crying 13-year-old girl in his courtroom during a court hearing…

Two guys go walking down the sidewalk of a Richmond, Va. housing complex. Cops see them, recognize them, and accuse them of trespassing based partly upon a trespassing arrest from eight years ago. Cops ask the guys to lift their shirts. One does, one kind of does. The kind-of one is also wearing…

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) used pentobarbital, also called Nembutal, to execute 13 people between July 2020 and January 2021. Nonprofit group requested the names of suppliers of the lethal injection drug. BOP: Request denied. FOIA allows agencies to withhold "confidential" and "commercial"…

A Southern District of California federal court decided to traumatize a child for attending a public hearing to support her father (view full article).

The events arose…

Is a South Carolina law that prohibits conducting oneself "in a disorderly or boisterous manner" unconstitutionally vague as applied to school children? Given that the state refers hundreds of them for prosecution each year, it sure seems to matter.…

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of John Montenegro Cruz, an Arizona prisoner who was sentenced to death by a jury that was not told a life without parole sentence meant he would never be released. See Cruz v.…