Our dysfunctional criminal justice system has been a long time in the making, and no one should have any illusions that it will be fixed overnight. But there are signs that change may be on the way.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
What, exactly, is it about Paul Krugman that gets the blood boiling for so many pundits? The Nobel Prize winning economist was the object of derision...
Emily Jane Goodman | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
Under existing law, despite the public perception of powerful judges, it is the state, through its prosecutors, and not its judges, that calls the shots on judgment day.
Times Of India | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
An Australian executive who threw his Thai wife out of their fourth-floor window after an altercation, was jailed for 25 months today by a Singapore c...
Donald Cohen | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
The real problem is that the structure of private detention and prison contracting creates incentives and behaviors that poison our system of criminal justice.
Inter Press Service | By Marwaan Macan-Markar | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
To be a lawyer in military-ruled Burma is to court danger, invite arrest and risk being jailed in the country's notorious prisons. It is the price...
www.mochiads.com | mochiads | Posted 03.08.2009 | Comedy
Now probably every person knows who Paris Hilton is. She is known for her appearance in a sex tape, her appearance on the television series, for her tongue-in-cheek autobiography, her album "Paris", and her work in modeling. And of cause she is much known for her shocking, antisocial and sometimes scandalous behavior. Some of her tricks even leaded Paris to the jail. Please, help Paris to get out of there!
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Imprisoned in the late 1970s for allegedly murdering two FBI agents, Leonard Peltier has never been given a fair trial.
A Pakistan News | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
A 40-year-old Irish woman who forced her teenage son to have sex with her and abused her other five children for years in a rat-infested "house of hor...
BBC News | Posted 02.20.2009 | World
A man who fathered two children with his daughter during years of sexual abuse against his family has been sentenced to 14 years in jail. The 72-year...
Jason Flom | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. He can begin by using the pardon power generously to correct as many individual cases of injustice as possible.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
Sholom Mordechai was essentially a glorified shochet and butcher, the country's largest producer of kosher meat. His beard and black hat were enough to unnerve many Jews.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
Recently, I sat down with the Minnesota Vikings' Adrian Peterson. Peterson's athletic accomplishments are remarkable; however, not for his records, but rather for the adversity he's overcome.
AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Italian con man Raffaello Follieri, who went from dating actress Anne Hathaway to serving a prison term for fraud, isn't enjoying the...
Jeanne Woodford | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
Prop. 5 starts with youth. It launches the state's first system offering drug treatment for at-risk youth. Stop addiction early, and we reduce crime.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.19.2008 | Living
Suddenly, organic food looks less like a yuppie luxury and more like it could and should be a staple for our sanity and security.
James Freedman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home
A candidate like Obama -- who says "thoughtful things" and actually speaks in "paragraphs" as opposed to soundbites -- might be willing to address the topic. But don't hold your breath.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
This sounds like a dream, doesn't it? Well, it's not. We have a unique opportunity right now to send Karl Rove to jail, but only if we take immediate action.
AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting Ame...
AP | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest Tuesday in his drunken driving case and will begin serving a 48-day jail sentence while his Fox TV drama "24" beg...
David C. Fathi | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics