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More than a thousand people have died this year.
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2023 @ 7:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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UN Commission on Human Rights supports pedophilia
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 10:32 am
By: John Steed
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‘I’m For Decriminalizing Across The Board’: John Fetterman Has Repeatedly Nodded To Woke Drug PolicyPennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman has repeatedly expressed openness toward controlled injection sites and other drug decriminalization policies.
Published: Sunday, August 28th, 2022 @ 7:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Decriminalization not working
Published: Sunday, June 5th, 2022 @ 3:53 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Decriminalization not working
Published: Sunday, May 1st, 2022 @ 7:58 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Bill would eliminate provisions that broadly criminalize rules violations of certain occupational licensing boards
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2021 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg confirmed to Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday that he supports the decriminalization of hardcore illicit drugs, including meth and heroin.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2020 @ 1:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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We have more activities and actions classified as a crime, something worthy of public condemnation, than just about any state.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 4:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accidentally self-reported a serious federal violation
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 9:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some North Carolina lawmakers are looking to simplify the state's complex criminal code
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2018 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the N.C. Senate Judiciary Committee today, Andy Wells (R-42) introduced an important and valuable piece of legislation in the form a proposed committee substitute for House Bill 379
Published: Thursday, June 7th, 2018 @ 2:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's criminal statutes are bloated but not beyond repair, a top legal expert says
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 4:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent event hosted by the Libre Institute highlighted an issue that's gaining support across the ideological spectrum: Reforms in the criminal-justice system that would clean up the legal code, not only reducing penalties for nonviolent offenses but also removing many crimes from the books
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I have previously reported, last May US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) proposed subjecting people who make politically incorrect statements about climate change to criminal investigation, and in September a group of respected academics went on the record endorsing that outrageous idea...
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the last two years, academics and scholars of public policy have identified North Carolina as a state with an overly complex criminal code that can ensnare small businesses, farmers, and individuals who unknowingly fail to comply with regulatory rules. In 2014, Professor Jeff Welty of the...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Apart from its compliance costs (which can be massive) and opportunity costs (which can be unfathomable), another cost of overregulation can be difficult in a different way to quantify: overcriminalization.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 3:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced this month by a bi-partisan group of US Senators that includes Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Mike Lee (R-UT), John Cornyn (R-TX), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Patrick Leahy...
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most of us consider ourselves to be law-abiding citizens, but can we really be sure we aren't breaking some law - somewhere, sometime - during our normal daily activities
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's criminal code is 55 percent larger than Virginia's and 38 percent larger than South Carolina's, and the Tar Heel State has created nearly three dozen new crimes each year over the past six years.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 4:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've all heard the saying "There ought to be a law." The person using the expression usually advocates a new law to ban some objectionable activity. But a proliferation of new laws can create its own problems.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 8:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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