Tag: criminal injustice
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, ...
State Attorney Aramis Ayala Releases Her “Bad Cops” List
State Attorney Aramis Ayala, the progressive top prosecutor of Orange County, Florida, has released ...
Why Are Black Arrest Rates for Marijuana Rising in Los Angeles?
Although California legalized marijuana over two years ago, racial disparities in arrests for the ...
Gasping for Justice: People Jailed in the Pandemic Refuse to Be Silenced
What do you do if you want the voices of incarcerated people at the ...
BlueLeaks: Inside Cops’ Islamophobic Counterdrug Training
This is a time bomb” was one student’s description of a September 2014 counterdrug ...
