criminal injustice

Refelonizing Fentanyl Had No Good Outcomes: Colorado Study

Increasing criminal penalties for fentanyl had zero impact on overdose deaths in Colorado and accomplished nothing good. That’s the result…

April 3, 2025

Escaping From Prison Is Easier Than You’d Think. We Just Know Better.

On March 9, someone made a rare escape from a Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) probation detention center. He was…

March 18, 2025

Alberta Will Force People Who Use Drugs to Enter Treatment

The government of Alberta, Canada, will force people who use drugs into substance use disorder treatment against their will, under…

February 26, 2025

South Dakota Considers Defelonizing Drug Ingestion

South Dakota might change a drug law that makes it an outlier in the United States. It's currently the only…

February 4, 2025

VA Lawmakers Advance Three Marijuana, Psychedelics Reform Bills

Virginia lawmakers have advanced a handful of drug policy bills—including measures to legalize commercial cannabis sales in the commonwealth, seal…

January 31, 2025

Police Consent Decrees at Stake as Trump Transforms DOJ

The Trump administration is freezing any new civil rights investigations as part of a radical overhaul of the Department of…

January 29, 2025

Cut “Wasteful” Marijuana Arrests, Sen. Warren Tells Elon Musk

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is urging Elon Musk, chair of the Trump administration’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),…

January 24, 2025

Trump’s Ominous Acting-DEA Administrator Appointment

President Donald Trump has appointed Derek Maltz as acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Senate confirmation would be…

January 23, 2025

Trump’s Move to Label Drug-Trafficking Groups “Foreign Terrorist Organizations”

President Donald Trump announced on his first day in office that organized drug trafficking groups will be designated Foreign Terrorist…

January 22, 2025

Waiting for Tennessee to Reform Its Felony Murder Rule

The trajectory of most proposed changes to Tennessee’s criminal-legal system is for all of us to stay in prison as…

January 21, 2025