criminal injustice

National Expungement Week: Learn How to Clear Your Record (For Free)

September 26 through October 3 is National Expungement Week of Action and Awareness (NEW), and a series of in-person and…

September 28, 2021

Governor Newsom Owes It to Voters to End California’s Drug War

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has comfortably won the recall election aimed at removing him from office, with a 30-point…

September 16, 2021

Biden Looks to Make Harsh Criminalization of Fentanyl Analogs Permanent

President Joe Biden is seeking to extend indefinitely a Trump-era rule on the scheduling of fentanyl analogs that facilitates harsh…

September 8, 2021

Marijuana Possession Arrests Plunge in NYC Post-Legalization

Marijuana arrests in New York City have dropped to the single digits since former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the state's…

September 7, 2021

District Attorneys Could Be Key to the post-Roe v. Wade Abortion Battle

Ever since President Trump started nominating new Supreme Court justices, reproductive health activists and court observers have sounded the alarm…

September 7, 2021

More Evidence That Coerced Drug Treatment Is Harmful as Well as Wrong

A paper published by the International Journal of Drug Policy confirms what harm reductionists have been saying since the dawn…

September 1, 2021

Alabama Parole Board’s Cruel and Unprecedented Increase in Denials

Representative Chris England, the chairman of the Alabama Democrats, does not mince words when it comes to former prosecutor Leigh…

August 31, 2021

Clemency for Ex-Weather Underground Member Who Is DA Chesa Boudin’s Dad

The 1981 Brink’s armored truck heist in Nanuet, New York is notorious. The botched robbery left two police officers and…

August 26, 2021

WI Judge Defies the Law by Doubling as a “Probation Officer”

In the opinion of Amanda Skorr, an attorney and former public defender, Outagamie County, Wisconsin Circuit Judge Vincent Biskupic acts…

August 23, 2021

Can Harm Reduction Reform the Drug Courts?

Among prohibitionists and proponents of the drug war, drug courts are touted as a means of diverting people from incarceration.…

August 18, 2021