“I thought to myself: I’m the difference between him and prison.” A 27-year-old woman identified as “Hannah” told the Daily Beast (DB) that after becoming a police officer, she devised a plan to meet with the male family member who molested her when she was a child in an effort to get him to admit his […]
Score a major victory in the war against unfair sentencing guidelines as the Justice Department is set to release thousands of non-violent drug offenders in an effort to relieve prison overcrowding amid criticism regarding mass incarceration. The Washington Post reports that “righting policy wrongs that began during the 80s and 90s,” the Justice department is […]
In the wake of what many consider to be failures on the part of prosecutors to obtain indictments against the police officers responsible for killing Michael Brown and Eric Garner, a story out of New Mexico may shed some light on why some prosecutors seem to shy away from aggressively pursuing charges against law enforcement […]