Americans have typically feared the reality of mental illness, which has resulted in a traumatic history of systematic oppression to some of the most vulnerable individuals. Although the common thought is that the United States has abolished its practice of indefinitely removing mentally ill individuals from society, in actuality, the practice is alive and well—through the criminal justice system. According to a 2016 article by The Pew, the United States is short 123,300 psyc

Intro Money laundering is a crime as defined by numerous statutes within the United States and internationally. Money laundering is the disguise or attempt to disguise money gained by criminal activity. The Treasury Department announced in its 2015 National Money Laundering Risk Assessment that approximately $300 billion is laundered through the United States each year. Money laundering co-exists and helps to facilitate other crimes, such as drug trafficking, human smuggling,

18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) (the Federal Bank Robbery Act) provides, in part: Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes, or attempts to take, from the person or presence of another, or obtains or attempts to obtain by extortion any property or money or any other thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any bank [is guilty of an offense]. Currently, federal circuits are split as to whether actual force and violence or

In April 2011, law enforcement officers arrested four men suspected of robbing Radio Shacks and T-Mobile Stores in and around Detroit. One of the arrested men confessed to the robberies and provided the FBI with the cell-phone numbers of others who participated in the string of robberies. Based on this information, local magistrate judges issued orders under the Stored Communications Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C. § 2703(d), requiring multiple wireless carriers to provide the FBI wit