Criminal Justice

An Oklahoma Army veteran pleaded guilty to assaulting a Washington D.C. police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot outside the U.S. Capitol.

Authorities jailed Michael James Hoeppner under suspicion of drunk driving in March 2019. He wasn’t intoxicated but suffering from a treatable illness.

The ex-police officer is the first in the nation to face harsher penalties under the 2022 reauthorization of the original act.

It heads to the full House where its fate is uncertain.

Two members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board resigned earlier this summer, officially leaving the board following the August meeting Tuesday.

Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna is dismissing an array of criminal charges against seven police officers who shot and killed three people, she announced on Friday.

Instead of taking him to a hospital for evaluation or taking him to jail, an Oklahoma City police officer took Ernest Antwine to no man’s land. And that’s where he died.

As our guest notes in an award-winning article that she wrote for Mother Jones Magazine: "Failure-to-protect laws are incarcerating women all over the country -- for other people's violence."

"An eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at [America's] often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants -- young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and resilience." -- Booklist (starred review)

A professor at the Georgetown University Law Center examines the foundations of racist policing in America