Flagrant prosecutorial misconduct by the US government both derails its case against the Bundys [Cliven Bundy pictured] and acts to validate Right-wing talking points about the FBI and the justice system.
Last year, California banned the practice, common elsewhere, of billing parents for the costs of their kids’ incarceration. Now one county is refunding parents who were wrongly billed.
(via @ultracasual; retweet by @radleybalko)From prosecutorial reform in Philadelphia to jailing drug court participants for smoking cigarettes in Tennessee, it’s another round of criminal (in)justice news from Radley Balko. Also, 2017 was shitty for North Americans but pretty damn good for the rest of the world.
Former Arizona sheriff and wrongly pardoned criminal Joe Arpaio is running for Senate. I wish him all the luck – specifically, Roy Moore’s luck.
(via Joe.My.God.)Finally, Gwyneth Paltrow’s crock shop Goop charges $135 for the privilege of spraying coffee up your butt. Because wellness!
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