Author: FAC Contributor #1

The criminal justice system in the United States today bears little relationship to what the Founding Fathers contemplated, what the movies and television portray, or what the average American believes. To the Founding Fathers, the critical element in the system was the jury trial, which served not only as a truth-seeking mechanism and a means of achieving fairness, but also

ned about, like the economic imbalances some defendants face when they enter the criminal justice system, and the suspiciously imbalanced demographics of America’s prison population. These data suggest to the left and right alike that something is going seriously wrong in American prisons. If the left and the right can come together on criminal justice reform, who knows what they

LITTLE ROCK – One of the 25 people that Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe plans to pardon is a convicted sex offender who has close ties to the Beebe family. Beebe is planning to pardon 34-year-old Michael Jackson, who is a friend of his son, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Jackson was also on the peewee football team coached by Beebe. Beebe’s spokesman,

The play, entitled The Awakening of Daniel Kelly, is about a 1930s government bureaucrat who registers Jews in Nazi Germany. He falls asleep one afternoon in his office and has a nightmare.   He dreams that he lives in the future where the registration extends to fellow Germans who have spent time in prison for certain types of crimes, thereby

HACKENSACK – Two decades after a convicted sex offender lured a 7-year-old named Megan into his house with the promise of seeing a new puppy, then killed her, the law that bears her name remains broadly popular, but gets mixed reviews. Megan’s Law was proposed within days of the murder of Megan Kanka and signed into law on Oct. 31,

A Montgomery County judge has signed orders that would allow Texas to reclaim two violent sex offenders banished a decade ago to Utah and Virginia, where they committed new sexual offenses. State District Judge Michael Seiler on Tuesday signed writs of attachment for Lloyd Joseph Wilson, 44, and Melvin Cody Whipple, 58, ordering that they be placed back in Texas’