Posted inLegal News

Is This Terrorism?

18-year old Justin Carter has been charged with making terrorist threats and spent 4 months in jail for posting a sarcastic comment on Facebook. He sat in jail for a…
Posted inLegal News

Jail Time For Chalk Writing

A  trial in San Diego, California has Jeff Olsen facing 13 counts of vandalism that together can potentially mean a 13-year jail sentence and fines of up to $13,000. Olsen…
Willie Manning
Posted inScience

Execution Stayed for Mississippi Man

From the Innocence Project - The Mississippi Supreme Court granted death row inmate Willie Manning a stay of execution four hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Mississippi’s…
Posted inLegal Reform

Yelp Used To Rate Prisons

Prisoners are turning to the online review site Yelp to rate prisons and speak out about the treatment they are receiving in them. The reviews cover complaints ranging from food…
Posted inLegal News

The Absurdity of Sequestration Cuts

Sequestration is supposed to save the country money by making across the board cuts in every department. We have to wonder about the logic of it all when sequestration cuts…
Posted inMisconduct

What Happens When Prosecutors Cheat?

When ProPublica analyzed more than a decade's worth of New York state and federal court rulings, they found more than two dozen cases where city prosecutors had committed misconduct harmful…
Posted inLegal Reform

Stanford 3 Strikes Project

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Magazine has a wonderful post on his blog about Stanford's 3 Strikes Project and some of the people behind it.  Click here to read Matt…