Across the nation, about 383,000 inmates with serious mental illness sit in jails and state prisons. That’s 10 times as many people as in state hospitals, according to the nonprofit Treatment Advocacy Center. Read this ABA Journal feature recently honored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

If you live in some parts of Michigan, you might be able to go to court without actually going.

In 2013, Camden County, New Jersey, police started using the gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter. The way Dan Keashen, spokesman for the department, tells it, the tool had an immediate impact.

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Residents of Flint, Michigan, hope lawsuits and criminal prosecutions will hold decision-makers accountable for the poisoning of their water supply.

The water crisis in Flint is unique in many respects, but the city isn’t alone in facing allegations regarding lead in the water supply.

Lawyer Paul LiCalsi argues that “This Land Is Your Land” (as it’s dubbed since a 1956 copyright) and “We Shall Overcome” deserve to be protected from commercial exploitation.