Tag: criminal injustice

    DULF Unveils Defense Strategy for Compassion-Club Criminal Charges 

    The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in Vancouver has outlined its intended defense to ...

    Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim “Deflection” Strategy

    Oregon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple ...

    Hundreds Prosecuted for Drug Use During Pregnancy in Year After Dobbs

    A new report from a reproductive rights organization finds that pregnancy-related prosecutions are at ...

    US Drug Enforcement’s Role in the Current Violence in Sinaloa, Mexico

    A major outbreak of violence in Culiacán, Mexico, spotlights United States drug war tactics ...

    Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too

    Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I ...

    For NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Abuses, Discipline Is “Close to Nonexistent”

    Over a decade after the New York City Police Department’s notoriously racist “stop-and-frisk” practice ...

    Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves

    Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...

    BC Government’s Involuntary Drug Treatment Expansion Plan Condemned

    The British Columbia government is moving towards a regime of involuntary treatment for people ...

    FCC Denies Securus Exemption From Price Caps on Calls From Prisons, Jails

    On August 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued final rulings on multiple outstanding ...