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A county sheriff in Arizona has vowed to continue his controversial crusade against illegal immigration, even after federal authorities stripped his department of special powers allowing local officers to assist in certain immigration law enforcement operations.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio made the announcement during a press conference at which several of his deputies symbolically [...]

The Obama administration has apparently abandoned its publicly stated goal of closing the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the anniversary of the president’s inauguration on January 22. White House officials have been attempting to downplay the significance of the date for some time, and over the weekend Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke [...]

A group of homeless former sex offenders has established an encampment on a patch of state-owned land behind an office park in Marietta, Georgia, after their probation officers were unable to find any legally acceptable housing for them due to highly restrictive residency laws for convicted sex offenders. The land, which is owned by the [...]

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has authorized her office to spearhead efforts to extend the incarceration of a former Catholic priest and convicted child sex offender beyond the completion of his sentence. Madigan’s office filed a petition last week, three days before the scheduled release of Daniel McCormack, asking that he be held indefinitely under [...]

In one of the most closely watched cases on its calendar, the United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that prisoners do not have a constitutional right to DNA testing of evidence gathered by police. The 5-4 decision is a setback for DNA testing advocates who point to more than 250 exonerations of wrongly convicted [...]

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