From Broken Windows to Broken Policies: On James Q. Wilson’s Analysis of “The Benefit of Prisons”

Note: I first wrote this post back in March when James Q. Wilson published an op-ed in several major American newspapers defending America's intense use of prisons. I decided not to publish it at the time, but today I see that Wilson.

An interesting collision of circumstances: California prison health care receiver J. Clark Kelso is saying he hopes to seize billions of dollars from the California general fund to pay for much needed improvements to the state prison system. The only hitch: the.

Drug policy is a complicated issue. Is there anything anybody can say in 100 words that would make you change your mind about the way we deal with drugs? Here's my stab at it. What's yours? I believe that America needs to change.

A California prison inmate who was the intended recipient of a postcard containing a small  amount of heroin did not actually "possess" a controlled substance when the postcard was intercepted before he ever received it, the Fourth District Court of Appeal held.

On Monday, Detroit Attorney Tim Attalla had charges that he helped the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club carry out a drug business thrown out by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan following a bench trial, as reported by an article.

After promises not to investigate, the federal government is still raiding Nevada homes and charging people with marijuana crimes. Here is what you need to know so you don’t leave your rights and freedom to chance.   Marijuana legalization is in the.

CEBU CITY, Philippines - A 54-year-old man will be spending the rest of his life in jail for selling 10 sticks of marijuana weighing 1.79 grams in 2005. Regional Trial Court Judge Gabriel Ingles Monday ordered Rosario Bayot Mahinay to pay a.

Nevada's Background Check Law for Handgun Purchases Being Reviewed The efficiency of background checks is still up for debate over three decades after the assassination attempt that gave birth to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) of 1993. In March.

OAKLAND, Calif. —The personal information of nearly 5,000 patients at three Bay Area hospitals may have been stolen and authorities only found out about because of a drug bust in Oakland almost a month ago. Sutter Health East Bay region notified the.

False Positives Often Send Innocent People To Jail While many of today's medical tests are accurate, false negative or positives do occur. The problem of false test results are so numerous the National Institute of Health issued a whitepaper on the subject.