2024年11月23日 · In Nueces County, Texas, which includes Corpus Christi, longtime progressive District Attorney Mark Gonzalez faced a trial for “gross carelessness” and “gross ignorance” of his job duties — a push backed by local conservatives. Gonzalez resigned in 2023, shortly before the trial began.. The general election earlier this month …

2025年1月10日 · O n Friday, after months of delay and prior assurances from the judge that Donald Trump would receive no jail time, the president-elect’s sentence was unconditionally discharged, sparing him from fines and probation too. Still, when he enters the White House in a few weeks, he will be the first sitting president with a felony conviction on his criminal record.

2024年12月17日 · M arcos Santiago heard the clatter of metal chains outside cell 201 next door. Locked in the most isolated unit at Lee federal prison in western Virginia, he knew that sound meant officers were readying to shackle another man to a concrete slab and leave him there for hours — as they had done to him weeks prior.

2024年1月6日 · Federal Prisons Are Over Capacity — Yet Efforts to Ease Overcrowding Are Ending The Bureau of Prisons’ system is in trouble and needs serious upgrades on several fronts.

2024年1月10日 · Meanwhile, state prison populations are rising.The number of people behind bars steadily declined starting in 2013 and then drastically dropped during the pandemic, when states released people to ease dangerous COVID-19 conditions, and court systems slowed.But by 2022, the number of people held in state prisons started …

The president’s actions move the federal government toward his promised hardline position. But some executive orders will face court challenges.

2018年11月1日 · A gainst all odds, I gave birth to a healthy baby boy. He completely changed my life. Even though my son was conceived in the most traumatic possible way, his birth was my saving grace. Suddenly, I had a little human to care for, and I became consumed with ensuring that he had the best possible life.

2024年10月26日 · Some law enforcement leaders have already declared that they will not participate in mass deportation efforts. Even officials who have raised concerns about the challenges created by large influxes of migrants are not necessarily interested in …

2024年10月21日 · For Donald Trump, immigrants bring crime. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said during his 2015 campaign announcement. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.

2024年4月26日 · Lawmakers supporting these bills refer to transgender people’s lives as a “woke social experiment” or “left-wing gender insanity.” Partly because of this rhetoric, trans and gender-expansive people are disproportionately targeted by violence, both inside and outside the criminal justice system. Transgender people are more than four …