Criminalization of non-criminal behavior and examples of bad behavior and misjudgement is pushing Hamilton County into a jail funding and jail crowding crisis, the pressure of which is intensifying. …
Grenda Harmer, slave in state prison in Wartburg, Tenn., tells about the petty tyrannies of the guards as the Times Free Press today reports on Hamilton County criminal court judge …
Chattanooga capitalists pitch “public-private” partnership to guarantee their profits in a new ball stadium, and Mayor Megan Barry of Nashville proposes a F$5 billion “mass transit” outlay paid by …
Police officers and sheriff’s deputies in the Chattanooga area are learning a vital technique of local economy: Voluntary relationships and free market techniques vs. force and violence. And increasingly …
Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated …
This coming Oct. 31 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. On that day 500 years ago – October 31st, 1517 – Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to …
A gracious member of the bar takes time today to straighten us out on the uncertainties of arrests, custodial arrests and Miranda warnings. His name is John Wysong, …
An impoverished independent businessman vows to appeal to the Tennessee supreme court a mid-level appellate opinion in a criminal case hostile to liberties Tennesseans enjoyed prior to World War …
