A judge in the United Kingdom handed down a seven-year jail sentence to a man who killed his friend by shooting him in the chest in an effort to test his supposedly bullet proof vest. So reports the Guardian.

New York will no longer subject inmates who are 21 and younger to solitary confinement, a punishment that research has shown to be particularly damaging to teenagers and young adults because of their still-developing brains. So reports The New York Times.

State and local police may no longer use a Justice Department policy that allowed them to seize almost $2.5 billion in property without search warrants or indictments since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. So reports The Washington Post.

The federal government will pay $385,000 to a Muslim man who was held in jail for 16 days in 2003 as a potential witness in the trial of his University of Idaho classmate, who was accused of promoting terrorism. So reports New York’s Daily News.