Justice

February 29, 2008 - This week, the Pew Center on the States released a bombshell study revealing that our country is locking up record numbers of people in jail and prison.

February 26, 2008 - A former inmate of a CCA run prison is protesting a former CCA executive's nomination to a federal judge post:

February 21, 2008 - Just when it looked like former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's stock was going up, the Wall Street Journal reports his legal troubles may be just beginning (sub req'd for full piece):

February 19, 2008 - Human rights activists from the United States are gathering in the Swiss city of Geneva this week to hold the government to account for violations of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

January 22, 2008 - Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Congressman from Texas who recently finished second in the Nevada Republican caucuses, used the occasion of yesterday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for another fundraising extravaganza, collecting $1.85 million for the campaign.

January 19, 2008 - The Nationalist Movement -- a white-supremacist group based in Learned, Miss. that bills itself as "pro-majority" -- plans to march on Jena, La. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest the holiday and the Jena 6.

January 10, 2008 - The Kentucky case that has executions on hold around the South and the rest of the nation is being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.