It has been a tough year for U.S. News college rankings. In September, Columbia University dropped from #2 to #18 in the country after misreporting data, allowing Cornell to rise to the number one school in New York. Not complaining about this one, but how this blunder could have happened in the first place called into question […]

JABBAR COLLINS LANGUISHED in jail for over 16 years for a murder he apparently never committed. He was only freed a few years ago when it was revealed at a post-conviction hearing that the main witness at his trial had told the prosecutor that he was pressured by police to lie about Collins’ involvement in the […]

By Sterling Hospedales 130 federal judges broke the law and violated ethics by hearing cases involving companies they had a financial interest in over 11 years An investigation found that more than 130 judges violated US law by overseeing cases involving companies in which they or their family held direct stock The report found that […]

By Sterling Hospedales As of 2017, three states – Kansas, Mississippi and Texas – and one U.S. territory, The Northern Mariana Islands, ban a felon from practicing law in their jurisdictions. In all other jurisdictions, there is no absolute ban, but the candidate must demonstrate his moral fitness. The means to do this vary from […]

By Sterling Hospedales Free Online Event from Annual Reviews, Knowable Magazine & JSTOR Daily Wednesday, March 23, 2022: 9AM Honolulu / 12PM San Francisco PST / 3PM New York EST Register Now. In the US today, prisons are considered an entrenched part of the criminal justice system, yet they are a relatively modern way of […]