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What happens after a defendant skips court—and why victims, taxpayers, and local governments bear the cost when no one actively brings them back. For years, the debate over court reform has been trapped inside an academic bubble. Policy advocates love to parade theoretical "release rates" as proof
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Before Americans hand the government their ownership and their freedom, they ought to look at the last country that did — and at what it looks like now. How does one of the most prosperous nations in the hemisphere end up in the dark, standing in line for eggs, watching its
Arrest
The real question isn’t capitalism versus socialism. It’s whether the citizen still controls the government — or whether the government has quietly begun to control the citizen. Why are so many politicians trying to change the political system that made America the freest and most successful nation in the
Arrest
Statehouses across the country spent 2025 and 2026 modernizing pretrial law. Ours let the moment pass. Across America, state legislatures spent 2025 and 2026 taking a hard look at pretrial release. Lawmakers debated violent offender detention, strengthened constitutional provisions, improved electronic monitoring, increased accountability, modernized bail statutes, expanded data collection,
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Every dollar stolen from a government program is a dollar taken straight out of the pocket of every working American — and it's past time we treated it that way. Call it what it is. When someone bills the federal government for autism therapy that was never delivered, that
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When Criminal Justice Theory Collides With Real-World Consequences The narrative driving modern criminal justice reform in America is not a grassroots movement. It is a top-down, highly coordinated campaign engineered by a specific network of well-funded special interests. At the intellectual spearhead of this movement stands the
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For nearly ten years, an organized movement told Mississippi that secured bail was the enemy of justice. They got much of what they wanted. Now a federal receiver runs the Hinds County jail, hundreds sit inside without an indictment, and the county is shipping the overflow out of county at