Tag: criminal injustice
VA Woman Could Face Lifetime in Prison for Mushroom, Cannabis Sales
A woman in Louisa County, Virginia, faces a sentence of up to 160 years ...
Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.
Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its ...
DULF Unveils Defense Strategy for Compassion-Club Criminal Charges
The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in Vancouver has outlined its intended defense to ...
Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim “Deflection” Strategy
Oregon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple ...
Hundreds Prosecuted for Drug Use During Pregnancy in Year After Dobbs
A new report from a reproductive rights organization finds that pregnancy-related prosecutions are at ...
To Get Methadone in Jail, I Had to Hide It in My Prosthetic Leg
The first time I went to jail, I was using heroin as well as ...
US Drug Enforcement’s Role in the Current Violence in Sinaloa, Mexico
A major outbreak of violence in Culiacán, Mexico, spotlights United States drug war tactics ...
Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too
Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I ...
For NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Abuses, Discipline Is “Close to Nonexistent”
Over a decade after the New York City Police Department’s notoriously racist “stop-and-frisk” practice ...
Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...
