A UN report claims that Myanmar has overtaken Afghanistan as the world’s largest producer of opium, Nicholas Yong reports for BBC. Myanmar’s opium production this year is estimated to rise by 36... Read more »
Tissue samples from the brain of Robert Card, the shooter who killed 18 people during an October rampage at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Maine, have been sent to CTE... Read more »
Cherokee Nation leaders announced the creation of a new task force examining criminal sentencing reform, enhancing the tribe’s existing “reentry” program and evaluating the tribe’s detention facility, Fox 23 reports. “Since we... Read more »
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Oregon jails that house people awaiting trial on misdemeanor or serious felony charges, sometimes for months or longer, do not have consistent drug addiction programs, Ben Botkin reports for the Oregon Capitol... Read more »
Illinois officials are questioning whether the state’s roughly 1,000 judges should be required to undergo the same training to better respond to rape survivors that illinois police officers have participated in 2018,... Read more »
A two-part report published on Monday by the Wren Collective, a group of former public defenders who do criminal justice research and policy, found that in most Harris County, Texas cases ending... Read more »
Explicit AI-generated material that overwhelmingly harms women and children is booming online at an unprecedented rate, Haleluya Hadero reports for the Associated Press. According to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh,... Read more »
Several thousand young people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being caught each year sharing or watching indecent images of children, including child abuse material, with a majority of people identified... Read more »
Manuel Rocha, a former American diplomat who served as US ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation and accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s... Read more »