Matt Jones

If you’re under 21 and have been convicted of a crime, you might wind up serving time in the juvenile justice system instead of an adult jail. Illinois…

Civil asset forfeiture — when the government can take property even without charging someone with a crime — has been the target of attacks by civil…

Critics of Rep. Kelly Cassidy’s proposal to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a ticketable offense consider the bill a first step toward the…

This story first appeared as Illinois Issues' State of the State column in the October 2014 edition of the magazine.Twenty-fourteen was going to be a…