Given the number of those in the California legal system today who are Latino, “you can guess a large percentage of them are Catholic.”
Criminal Justice
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
‘Law and Order’ should not mean wiping out civil rights protections
Public safety and protecting the civil rights of citizens are not competing goals.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Nebraska highlights the Catholic Church’s struggle with the death penalty
The fight against the death penalty lays bare the strengths and weaknesses of the Catholic approach to pro-life issues.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
Meet the man who told the story of New York City, one crime at a time
Michael Wilson, a graduate of Loyola New Orleans, wrote the New York Times column “Crime Scene” for the past six years.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
When sexual assault goes viral
What motivates assailants to brazenly post their crimes to Facebook?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Guantánamo lawyer: Military tribunals are built on American apartheid
The Guantánamo tribunals create a precedent that endangers us all.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Father Greg Boyle: I thought I could “save” gang members. I was wrong.
Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Outgoing Chicago U.S. attorney bemoans gun violence, urges reform
In a five page “open letter,” Zachary Fardon traced problems in the city’s most troubled neighborhoods to neglect “rooted in ugly truths about power politics, race and racism.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
A Mexico border parish awaits migrants fleeing gang violence in Central America
A parish on the Mexico-Guatemala border is preparing for Central Americans seeking safety from the gang violence that is gripping El Salvador and Honduras.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The problem of mass incarceration is more complicated than we thought.
Although nonviolent offenders get the most attention from reformers, they account for less than 20 percent of all prisoners.