Notes from the Handbasket

If you use Facebook at all, you've probably seen it--the post that says, " Why do we test things on animals when we have prisons fu...

US Sentencing Guidelines use a point system to guide courts to appropriate sentences for defendants. I have learned that if the offender do...

Both society and the justice system treat child porn users the same as child molesters. I don't know how it came to be that way, but I s...

I have been unable to spend much time online lately and what little time I have is spent in research for my husband's case. I will expla...

Radley Balko notices that, though violence against police is down, police still prefer to act as if it isn't. ...as I’ve pointed ou...

The Sandusky story has prompted many discussions about sexual abuse of children and how we handle that. Did Penn State ignore Sandusky's...

Just when I start thinking that America's incarceration rate is so horrendously out of control that no one can disagree that we need to ...