We all know not to drink and drive. Research has documented the effects of alcohol on our bodies, minds, and ability to…
Cyntoia Brown is currently 14 years into a life sentence for murder – a sentence the Tennessee jury gave her in 2004…
Georgia Code Section 16-5-41 defines false imprisonment as confining or detaining a person or persons against their personal liberty without a legal basis or…
A political debate in the United States during the past few years has focused on the impact, frequency, and severity of criminal…
America’s war on drugs began in the early 1970s as a reaction to the country’s counterculture movement. Tough laws enacted at the…
Designer drugs mimic the effects of widespread, popular drugs. They are illegal and often made synthetically in a lab. Designer drugs have far less…
24 Much controversy surrounds public and private prisons. Local, state, or federal governments own and operate public prisons. The law requires public…
Solitary confinement is a type of incarceration in which an inmate has almost no contact with anyone else for the duration of…
Dozens of years after the “Golden State Killer” case had gone cold in the state of California, prosecutors utilized a third-party genealogy…
“Revenge porn” has been a recent topic of conversation among Georgia lawmakers. Revenge porn refers to a trend in which someone posts…