Afternoon Briefs: Judge denies QAnon connection; investors sue over ‘Voltswagen’ prank press release

Measuring the human cost of the tough-on-crime policies of the 1980s and ’90s has never been a simple task. Researchers have tried to show the impact by measuring how long prisoners spent behind bars before they were released. They found that time served has increased over the past decades. But that approach skips a whole…