A Path Forward to Criminal Justice Policy that Keeps us Safe and Reflects our Values
Today, there are over 2.3 million men and women in prisons throughout the United States. We incarcerate more of our population than any country in the world, and the increased incarceration of offenders with drug offenses represents the most signif...
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This Week in Civil Liberties
The theme this week was "without": combating the spread of AIDS without actual tools and information to combat the spread of AIDS, searches without warrants, protections for business without protections for everybody else, government burea...
Categories: drug law reform, drug sentencing, E-Verify, GPS, HIV/AIDS, medical marijuana, Supreme Court, surveillance, video games, warrantless tracking Tags:
Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it’s ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice s...
Categories: California, criminal justice, drug law reform, drug policy, drug sentencing, Elon James White, hunger strike, overincarceration, overincarceration clips, Richard Nixon, solitary confinement Tags:
Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it’s ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice s...
Categories: California, criminal justice, drug law reform, drug policy, drug sentencing, Elon James White, hunger strike, overincarceration, overincarceration clips, Richard Nixon, solitary confinement Tags:
Just Say "No" to the War on Drugs
June 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of demand for drugs in the United Sta...
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Justice Is Served
June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of demand for drugs in the United States...
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Justice Is Served
June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of demand for drugs in the United States...
Categories: drug sentencing, overincarceration, sentencing disparity, sentencing reform, War on Drugs Tags:
The War on Drugs Tears Families Apart
June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of demand for drugs in the United States,...
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