Tag: criminal injustice
ICE to Stop Holding Immigrants at Infamous Alabama Jail
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on March 25 that it will stop detaining ...
Biden Plans an Extra $30 Billion to Fund the Police
President Biden doesn’t want to defund the police. Instead, he wants to give them ...
Georgia Prisons Are in Crisis—and Punishing Trans Women for It
The Georgia Department of Corrections is in freefall. By the time the US Department ...
Tucson’s Top Prosecutor Pulls Back From No-Minor-Drug-Charges Policy
In 2016, Barbara LaWall, then the elected prosecutor of Pima County (Tucson), published an ...
Baltimore Prosecutors Have Been Inflating Charges for Black Defendants
Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of ...
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 ...
