Tag: criminal injustice
Drive to Free Black Woman With Marijuana Life Sentence Exposes “Habitual Criminal” Laws
“Give a mother the chance to hold her child again.” So reads a petition, ...
Kamala Harris Was Mocking “Schools Not Jails” Not So Long Ago
When Kamala Harris was still San Francisco’s district attorney in 2010, she delivered a ...
How Would Dismantling the DHS Affect the War on Drugs?
It’s time to abolish the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), writes ACLU Director ...
Methadone Patients’ Data Poised to Be Entered Into PDMPs
Starting August 14, methadone patients face the very real possibility that their long-protected privacy ...
Law Enforcement Unions Sue for Fear LA Will Vote to Fund Communities, Not Cops
A diverse group of Los Angeles labor organizations, helmed by law enforcement, is working ...
Will Californians Vote to Eliminate Cash Bail in November?
Voters in the nation’s largest state will have the chance in November to decide ...
Prisoners’ Justice Day Is Every Day for Those of Us Who Have Lived Inside
Prisoners’ Justice Day is every day of the year to all of us who ...
As the DEA Swarms US Cities, Its Abolition Should Be Prioritized
As the President sends Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents to Chicago and other cities ...
Black Residents Subject to 97 Percent of Marijuana Arrests, Citations in Albany
While the state of New York decriminalized marijuana possession for personal use in 2019, ...
End Civil Asset Forfeiture to Defund the Drug War
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends ...
