Articles Tagged with #law
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Video
Freedom in Expression
Former inmate Chris Wilson demonstrates how he learned to paint with crushed Skittles and makeshift brushes.
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Newsplain
Above the Law
Mandatory minimum sentences are the product of good intentions, but good intentions do not always make good policy. That sentence on mandatory minimum sentencing—that bugbear of criminal justice...
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Realpolitiking
The Death of Clemency
Clemency is supposed to be a “fail-safe” in our judicial system. Thanks to a handful of powerful, well-paid political appointees, that notion is proving lethally incorrect.
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Dispatches
How to Unmarry Your Wife
After moving from a state that recognizes same-sex marriage to one that doesn’t, a couple’s marriage becomes a partnership, and they are suddenly forced into new roles.
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TMN Weekender
Disorder
At least one of three heavily timber-producing counties in Oregon last week rejected property tax increases to pay for law enforcement services that had previously been funded by federal timber...