Tag: criminal injustice
VA Lawmakers Advance Three Marijuana, Psychedelics Reform Bills
Virginia lawmakers have advanced a handful of drug policy bills—including measures to legalize commercial ...
Police Consent Decrees at Stake as Trump Transforms DOJ
The Trump administration is freezing any new civil rights investigations as part of a ...
Cut “Wasteful” Marijuana Arrests, Sen. Warren Tells Elon Musk
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is urging Elon Musk, chair of the Trump administration’s newly ...
Trump’s Ominous Acting-DEA Administrator Appointment
President Donald Trump has appointed Derek Maltz as acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement ...
Trump’s Move to Label Drug-Trafficking Groups “Foreign Terrorist Organizations”
President Donald Trump announced on his first day in office that organized drug trafficking ...
Waiting for Tennessee to Reform Its Felony Murder Rule
The trajectory of most proposed changes to Tennessee’s criminal-legal system is for all of ...
Canada’s Supreme Court to Rule On Scope of Good Samaritan OD Law
In September 2020, a truck pulled over in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to report an ...
New Jersey Governor Issues Pardons for Dozens of Drug-War Convictions
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) has announced pardons for dozens of people with ...
Years Pass in a County Jail, Asking for Public Defenders Who Never Answer
In the three years and two months that Pareshkumer Desai has been detained pretrial, ...
After Biden Clemency Action for Drug Convictions, Most People Want More
As President Joe Biden announces a new round of pardons and commutations—including several for ...
