Tag: criminal injustice
Much Work Remains to Undo Grotesque Legacy of the Rockefeller Drug Laws
New York’s Rockefeller Drug Laws, perhaps the most infamous embodiment of criminalizing addiction and ...
Chicago’s “Progressive” Prosecutor Cut Prison Sentences, Not Felony Drug Prosecutions
Dubbed a “progressive prosecutor” by many in the media, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim ...
Exclusion, Censorship, Internment: Brazilian Drug Policy Under Bolsonaro
The situation for harm reductionists here in Brazil continues to deteriorate. A decree signed ...
Why We Need the Dem Debates to Probe Candidates’ US Attorney Picks
Our top federal prosecutors are called United States attorneys. There are only 94 of ...
New York Decriminalizes Cannabis, But Fails to Address Injustice
After stalling cannabis legalization in spring 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into ...
Algorithm Using Racist Drug War Data to Determine Missourians’ Freedom
An algorithm based on data from decades of drug war policing that disproportionately targets ...
Kamala Harris Cannabis Legalization Bill Is Also About Immigrant Justice
On July 22, Senator Kamala Harris, the betting markets’ favorite to become the 2020 ...
Memo to Josh Shapiro: Attorneys General Do Have the Right to Be Good
A fun exercise is to check your state’s constitution and search the term “attorney ...
Inside the Philippines Prison That Sparked Duterte’s Murderous Drug War
Twenty-three thousand dead. That’s the latest estimate—and maybe a low one—of people killed by ...
A Conversation with Michael Johnson, Criminalized by Missouri’s HIV Law
Last week, Michael Johnson, a young black gay man, was released earlier than expected ...
