In an op-ed published by the Washington Post, President Obama announced some major changes to bring more humanity to the criminal justice system. Tanya Snyder has more. Download Audio FSRN Profile: Meet Steven Czifra,...
In a Washington Post op-ed, President Obama announced dramatic reforms to the federal prison system’s use of solitary confinement, including slashing the amount of time an individual should spend in solitary and abolishing it...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that could free people currently in prison who were sentenced as juveniles to life without parole. In 2012, the court ruled in Miller v. Alabama...
Canada’s International Trade Minister said Monday that Ottawa intends to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but that does not mean that the federal government will ratify the massive trade deal. In a statement, Chrystia Freeland...
Questions of accountability and long term effects loom over Flint water crisis Massive gas leak continues to spew methane into Southern California skies DOI to assess coal mining on federal lands for first time...
The federal government is reviewing a program that allows for the leasing of federal lands to coal companies. The Obama administration has announced a freeze on new applications for coal mining leases for the...
A public health crisis has been simmering in Flint, Michigan for nearly two years…and it’s finally boiled over. The governor has apologized and promised accountability, but it’s still unclear how much he knew and...
There’s no end in sight for what some environmental activists call the country’s biggest environmental catastrophe since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. A massive leak of methane gas from an underground...
This week marks the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, a case that codified a woman’s right to choose whether to carry a pregnancy to term or to have...
As many as 4,000 families in Zimbabwe are in limbo after facing down bulldozers during the holidays. At least 1000 others became homeless after officials ordered their houses demolished just before Christmas, the latest...
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