Tag: criminal injustice
We Know Visitors Aren’t the Ones Bringing Drugs Into Our Prison
The Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated since 2016 has long maintained that ...
Brittney Griner: US Steps Up Pressure Over Cannabis Detention in Russia
Weeks after it was disclosed that American professional basketball player Brittney Griner was arrested ...
Oklahoma Death Penalty Case Flags Inadequate Defense Funding
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin did not want to release the dashcam video of ...
Executions for Drug Convictions Surged in 2021. Most Are Kept Secret.
At least 131 people were executed for drug convictions in 2021, according to a ...
Federal Life Sentences for Drugs: Unconscionable and Massively Biased
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a ...
Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout ...
Chicago Mayor Wants to Expand Civil Asset Forfeiture to “Gang Activity”
Chicago City Council will soon vote on a controversial ordinance to use civil asset ...
In Maximum Security Prison, the System Works to Deny Us Transfers
Since 2018, I have been incarcerated in a maximum security unit of Michigan’s Baraga ...
Prosecutors Excluded Jurors for Being Black, NC Supreme Court Finds
Juries in the United States are not just 12 people selected at random. Instead, ...
Arizona May Enact 35-Year Mandatory Minimum for “Drug Trafficking Homicide” of Kids
A kid dying of an opioid-involved overdose is a tragedy. Thankfully, it is comparatively ...
