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Federal courts disagree over whether mandatory detention statutes permit indefinite detention without prompt bond hearings
Since 2003, cities that enacted separation or “” ordinances have faced a shifting legal gauntlet: direct federal lawsuits and executive orders seeking to compel cooperation or withhold funds, state la...
The maximum time a defendant can be held pretrial depends on which forum — federal, state, or local — and the particular statutory or constitutional rules that apply; there is no single nationwide cap...
The majority of recent reporting shows that an expanding share of people held in U.S. detention systems—especially in immigration custody—are not convicted criminals, a trend that has driven much of I...
Federal adjudicative guidelines used across law‑enforcement and national‑security hiring treat certain criminal convictions as explicitly disqualifying—most prominently recent or serious felony convic...