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Why Texas Lawmakers Tried To Stop America's First 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' Execution

Why Texas Lawmakers Tried To Stop America's First 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' Execution
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Trump's Death Penalty Executive Order Aims To Expand Execution

Trump's Death Penalty Executive Order Aims To Expand Execution
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Biden Attempts To Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment by Blog Post

Biden Attempts To Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment by Blog Post
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DEA Ends Airport Gate Searches After Years of Documented Abuses of Civil Asset Forfeiture

DEA Ends Airport Gate Searches After Years of Documented Abuses of Civil Asset Forfeiture
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Nevada Judge to Nevada Cops: You Can't Use This Loophole To Get Around Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform

Nevada Judge to Nevada Cops: You Can't Use This Loophole To Get Around Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
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Georgia Man Sues Glynn County Police After He Was Arrested for Refusing To Give ID

Georgia Man Sues Glynn County Police After He Was Arrested for Refusing To Give ID
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Ohio Lawmakers Sneak In a New Law to Charge Public for Police Body Camera Videos

Ohio Lawmakers Sneak In a New Law to Charge Public for Police Body Camera Videos

Police C.J. Ciaramella | 1.3.2025 2:45 PM Ohioans will now likely have to pay hundreds of dollars to see police videos after Republican Gov. Mike...

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Review: UFO 50 Pays Homage to '80s Video Games

Review: UFO 50 Pays Homage to '80s Video Games

Video Games C.J. Ciaramella | From the February 2025 issue UFO 50 is one of the most impressive and audacious video game releases in recent memory,...

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Ohio Legislature Passes Bill Ending Driver's License Suspensions for Court Debts 

Ohio Legislature Passes Bill Ending Driver's License Suspensions for Court Debts 

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | 1.2.2025 3:18 PM Ohio may soon reinstate the driver's licenses of hundreds of thousands of residents who lost...

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Alabama Teen Killed During 'No-Knock' Drug Raid Had His Hands Raised, Lawsuit Says

War on Drugs C.J. Ciaramella | 12.27.2024 3:29 PM A 16-year-old teenager had his hands raised when he was fatally shot by police during an...

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Biden Commutes Nearly All Federal Death Penalty Sentences

Biden Administration C.J. Ciaramella | 12.23.2024 12:56 PM Under pressure to fulfill a campaign promise before he leaves office, President Joe...

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Biden Shouldn't Have Commuted the Sentence of a Judge in the 'Kids for Cash' Kickback Scandal 

Biden Administration C.J. Ciaramella | 12.13.2024 2:36 PM Among the 1,500 federal offenders whose home confinement sentences were commuted by...

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Biden Issues More Pardons and Commutations Under Pressure From Criminal Justice Groups

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | 12.12.2024 3:13 PM Outgoing President Joe Biden granted 39 pardons and commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500...

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Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Clear Federal Death Row and Issue More Commutations After Pardoning His Son

Joe Biden C.J. Ciaramella | 12.10.2024 1:57 PM A broad array of advocacy organizations and religious groups—including the Vatican—are urging...

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What Happened to Biden's Ambitious Criminal Justice Reform Plans?

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | From the January 2025 issue In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we're giving performance reviews of Joe Biden's...

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Pasco County Sheriff Will End Predictive Policing Program to Settle Lawsuit Over Harassment

Police C.J. Ciaramella | 12.4.2024 1:31 PM The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is permanently scuttling a predictive policing program that was the...

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Indiana Cops Seized Their Cash From a FedEx Hub. Prosecutors Just Agreed To Return It.

Police Abuse C.J. Ciaramella | 12.3.2024 3:21 PM Indiana prosecutors will return $42,000 in cash they seized from a California small business,...

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Federal Judge Tells New York City To Brace for Takeover of Rikers After Contempt Finding

New York City C.J. Ciaramella | 11.27.2024 2:39 PM A federal judge has ordered New York City to draft plans to hand over management of its Rikers...

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New York City's Push to Ban Mail at Rikers Was Based on Drug Test Kits With an 85 Percent Error Rate

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | 11.22.2024 1:58 PM In 2022, former New York City Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina testified...

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Justice Department Orders DEA to Halt Airport Searches Because of 'Significant Issues' With Cash Seizures

Civil Liberties C.J. Ciaramella | 11.21.2024 3:30 PM The Justice Department has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to suspend most...

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The Bureau of Prisons' Casual Cruelty to Families of Those Who Die Behind Bars

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | 11.19.2024 7:00 AM On June 13, 2019, Mandy Turner received the call every family member of someone in prison...

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Justice Department Finds 'Dehumanizing' Filth and Violence at Atlanta Jail Where Man Died Covered in Bugs

Civil Liberties C.J. Ciaramella | 11.15.2024 1:25 PM Two years after a mentally ill man died malnourished and covered in insects in Atlanta's...

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Supreme Court Won't Hear a Qualified Immunity Case Where a Cop Disclosed an Abuse Report to a Woman's Abuser

Politics C.J. Ciaramella | 11.14.2024 2:00 PM A California woman won't be allowed to sue the police officer who allegedly leaked a confidential...

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Abolish FOIA

Government secrecy C.J. Ciaramella | From the December 2024 issue Over the past decade I've submitted hundreds of records requests to federal...

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Trump Nominates Matt Gaetz as Attorney General

Trump Administration C.J. Ciaramella | 11.13.2024 5:53 PM In a surprise move, President-elect Donald Trump announced today he is nominating Rep....

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Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries

Internet C.J. Ciaramella | From the December 2024 issue In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of...

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Want To Lower the Political Temperature? Make the Presidency Less Important

Executive Power C.J. Ciaramella | 11.8.2024 2:45 PM Over the past decade pundits have written much about how to reduce the polarization and rancor...

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Florida's Marijuana Legalization Initiative Fails To Pass

Marijuana C.J. Ciaramella | 11.5.2024 9:08 PM A Florida ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana failed to hit the supermajority...

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Judge Throws Out Charges Against Arizona Mom Arrested for Criticizing Officials at a City Council Meeting

First Amendment C.J. Ciaramella | 10.25.2024 12:27 PM A judge on Wednesday threw out a criminal charge against an Arizona mother who was arrested at...

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Iowa Supreme Court is Considering if the State Can Charge Acquitted Defendants for Court-Appointed Attorneys

Sixth Amendment C.J. Ciaramella | 10.25.2024 11:08 AM The Iowa Supreme Court is being asked to consider, again, if state courts can bill poor...

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The Best of Reason: Big Pot vs. Big Government in Florida

Marijuana C.J. Ciaramella | 10.22.2024 6:05 PM This week's featured article is "Big Pot vs. Big Government in Florida" by C.J. Ciaramella. This...

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Big Pot vs. Big Government in Florida

Marijuana C.J. Ciaramella | From the November 2024 issue It might seem at odds with Florida's hard-partying reputation that uptight states like...

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Texas Lawmakers Temporarily Save Death Row Inmate Robert Roberson From the Execution Chamber

Forensic science C.J. Ciaramella | 10.18.2024 2:15 PM Last night, Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson narrowly avoided becoming the first person...

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Phoenix Police Pummel a Deaf Man, Months After the Justice Department Found Widespread Civil Rights Violations

Police Abuse C.J. Ciaramella | 10.16.2024 2:00 PM Video footage of Phoenix police officers beating and tasing a deaf black man with cerebral palsy...

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Texas Appeals Court Overturns 'Shaken Baby' Conviction Ahead of Execution Date in Another Disputed Case

Criminal Justice C.J. Ciaramella | 10.11.2024 3:05 PM As the state of Texas prepares for the first execution in the country based on evidence of...

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The ACLU of South Carolina is Suing To Publish Interviews With a Death Row Inmate

First Amendment C.J. Ciaramella | 10.10.2024 7:00 AM A federal appeals court will soon decide if there is a First Amendment right to interview...

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Nashville Attorney Sues Federal Judges Over Gag Order Barring Him From Talking About a Notorious Prison

Free Speech C.J. Ciaramella | 10.3.2024 3:25 PM For the past two years, a Nashville attorney hasn't been able to publicly talk about a private...

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A Florida Judge Blocked a Newspaper from Publishing Video of a Jail Death

Transparency C.J. Ciaramella | 10.1.2024 3:51 PM A Florida newspaper reports that video of a mentally ill man's violent death in a county jail...

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Justice Department Says a Small Mississippi Town Ran a Dickensian Debtor's Prison

Police Abuse C.J. Ciaramella | 9.27.2024 1:17 PM A Justice Department investigation concluded that a small Mississippi town piled more than $1.7...

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Tyreek Hill's Violent Traffic Stop Shows Wider Police Problems in Miami

Police Abuse C.J. Ciaramella | 9.16.2024 3:23 PM The violent traffic stop of Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill by Miami-Dade police officers...

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Texas Court Rejects Last Appeal for a Man Set To Be Executed Based on Disputed 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' Evidence

Death Penalty C.J. Ciaramella | 9.11.2024 2:00 PM A Texas appeals court denied a stay of execution today for Robert Roberson, a death row inmate...

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At the Presidential Debate, Trump Again Falsely Claimed Crime Is Rising

Donald Trump C.J. Ciaramella | 9.10.2024 10:36 PM During Tuesday's presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald...

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Federal Judge Rules Inmate Death Records Can Remain Secret Because They Could Embarrass Prison Officials

FOIA C.J. Ciaramella | 9.9.2024 3:15 PM In response to a public records lawsuit filed by the Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason...

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A Federal Prison Was Warned About Synthetic Marijuana. Then Inmates Started Overdosing.

Prisons C.J. Ciaramella | 9.6.2024 2:01 PM In February, a criminal justice advocacy group warned the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) that there was...

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An Arizona Mom Was Arrested for Criticizing Public Officials at a City Council Meeting. Now She's Suing.

Free Speech C.J. Ciaramella | 9.4.2024 1:44 PM Rebekah Massie says she wanted to teach her 10-year-old daughter a little bit about the importance...

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Donald Trump Backs Florida Marijuana Legalization Amendment

Marijuana C.J. Ciaramella | 8.31.2024 2:43 PM In a social media post this morning, Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald...

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Florida Police Officer Arrested and Charged in Fatal Shooting of 23-Year-Old Airman Roger Fortson

Police Abuse C.J. Ciaramella | 8.27.2024 12:59 PM The former Florida Panhandle police officer who shot and killed Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old Air...

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Criminal Justice Reform Took a Back Seat at the 2024 DNC

Democratic Convention 2024 C.J. Ciaramella | 8.23.2024 3:46 PM Criminal justice reform and police accountability were once center-stage in...

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The Democratic Party Platform Still Won't Commit to Legalizing Marijuana

War on Drugs C.J. Ciaramella | 8.20.2024 3:11 PM Democratic delegates approved the party's 2024 platform at the Democratic National Convention in...

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Lawsuit Claims Indiana Unconstitutionally Seizes Millions in Cash From FedEx Packages Every Year

Civil Asset Forfeiture C.J. Ciaramella | 8.12.2024 2:47 PM A new class action lawsuit accuses Indiana law enforcement of seizing millions of dollars...

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