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Has Movement To Expand Pot Legalization Hit A Roadblock?
As every state surrounding Idaho legalized marijuana, state Rep. Bruce Skaug viewed it as inevitable in his state. Not anymore. Skaug, a...
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3 hours ago2 min read
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Can Anything Be Done About The High Pedestrian Death Toll?
In 2022, more pedestrians died on the road than in any of the preceding 40 years. From 2014 to 2024, pedestrian deaths rose seven times...
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1 day ago3 min read
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U.S. Taps Private Prison Industry For Expanding Immigrant Detention
The Trump administration is moving quickly to expand dramatically the nation’s capacity for detaining immigrants who do not have legal...
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4 days ago2 min read
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Conservative Judges Split On Issues Of Teens' Buying, Possessing Guns
The next major Second Amendment case may concern teenagers. Appeals courts are split on whether the government may prevent 18- to...
Crime and Justice News
Apr 72 min read
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Will Crime Drop In New York City, Chicago Continue?
New York City saw historic reductions in overall crime through the first quarter of 2025, with the fewest shooting incidents in recorded...
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Apr 43 min read
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Death-Row Inmate Puts Art and Notebooks For Sale for $80,000, But the Move Angers Victim’s Family
This month, for an asking price of $80,000 a Sonoma County bookseller could sell the writings and artwork of death-row inmate Albert...
Crime and Justice News
Apr 33 min read
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How Policing Has Shifted Since George Floyd
The national atmosphere around policing has shifted significantly in the years since George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police...
Crime and Justice News
Apr 23 min read
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Will Chartered Deportation Flights End in Disaster?
The deportation flight was in the air over Mexico when chaos erupted in the back of the plane. A girl had collapsed. She had a high fever...
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Apr 12 min read
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Local Police Officers Say ICE Arrests Make Immigrants Fearful Of Them
In Santa Fe County, N.M., last month, local police leaders stood before a packed auditorium and showed photos of their uniforms so...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 312 min read
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Linking Public Safety, Economic Issues In Cities, Suburbs, Rural Sites
Public attention on crime and public safety has largely focused on fixing problems in cities, despite troubling safety challenges in...
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Mar 282 min read
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Carceral Mortality Projects Track Otherwise ‘Invisible’ Deaths
For almost 20 years, from about 2000 until 2019, the federal government offered at least some idea of how many people across the U.S....
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Mar 272 min read
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Experts Worry About Possible Trump Crime Grant Cuts, Death Penalty
In his first weeks back in the White House, President Trump took actions affecting criminal justice, including an executive order...
By Claire Cornelius
Mar 262 min read
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'Atrocious' Rural TX Courts Leave People Jailed With No Lawyers
South Texas jail inmate Fernando Padro, accused of stealing credit cards to buy diapers, a bike and other goods for his family, heard...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 252 min read
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Five-State Research Project Promotes More-Humane Prisons
With the nation's prison population standing at about 1.3 million and invovlving 200,000 corrections officers, many inmates still must...
By Ted Gest
Mar 243 min read
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'That's Not the Jessie I Knew,' People Said After the 1996 Murder. But He Did It. This Week, He Was Executed By Louisiana
Jessie Hoffman, the 46-year-old man gassed to death by Louisiana on Tuesday, was not someone who led a life of crime that ended in the...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 212 min read
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Can Cognitive Behavioral Interventions Reduce Community Violence?
Firearm‑related injuries have been the leading cause of death for young people since 2020, surpassing motor vehicle crashes, cancer, drug...
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Mar 203 min read
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How Trump Hopes High Court Will Affirm His Immigration Strategy
President Trump has accelerated a multipronged, methodically planned strategy to push the Supreme Court to bless his power to deport...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 192 min read
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Local News Coverage Of Police Not More Polarized, Study Finds
High-profile incidents of police violence against Black citizens—most notably the 2020 murder of George Floyd—led to protests and...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 183 min read
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'Stick Talk' Teaches Chicago Teens How To Handle Guns Safely
Each year, the Chicago Police Department seizes 10,000 illegal guns and arrests thousands of people for illegal gun possession. Yet guns...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 172 min read
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Chicago Clearance Rate In Non-Fatal Shootings Is A Tiny 6 Percent
Tom Wagner was working as a rideshare driver when he was shot during a Chicago carjacking in 2021. The shooting left a jagged scar across...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 142 min read
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