Tag: criminal injustice
New Jersey Bill Could Belatedly Release One in Five People From Prison
On July 30, the New Jersey state Senate voted in favor of a bill ...
What’s Behind Felony Charges for Three Nonviolent Protesters in Salt Lake City?
Salt Lake City is a world apart from the rest of Utah culturally and ...
Eight in 10 Democrats Want Marijuana Legalization. Why Doesn’t the Party?
Seventy-eight percent of Democrat voters want it. Nearly all of the Democratic presidential candidates ...
New Orleans’ Nightmare Prosecutor Steps Down. Who’s Next?
In prosecutor accountability circles, the name Leon Cannizzaro carries almost mystical significance. Cannizzaro, the ...
ACLU: COVID-19 Decarceration Did Not Increase Crime
Decarceration measures taken by county jails this past spring to mitigate the spread of ...
British Columbia’s Troubling Bid to Detain Young People Who Overdose
On June 23, the provincial government of British Columbia announced the first reading of ...
Californian Cannabis Tax Revenues Are Used to Boost Police Budgets
How are tax revenues from legal marijuana being spent in California, the nation’s largest ...
A Unanimous Decision From St. Louis Lawmakers to Close Its Notorious Jail
The fate of the most notorious jail in St. Louis is nearly sealed. On July ...
The Drug War’s “Science-Based” Training on “Dopers and Parasites”
A federally funded training program for law enforcement and other students offers a course ...
PANDA: The Birth of a Pan-American Drug-User Alliance
You can draw interwoven lines of suffering right down through the Americas. British Columbia, ...
