Tag: criminal injustice
Sex Workers Got No Pardons. Decriminalization Is Overdue.
On October 8, President Biden pardoned thousands of people convicted of simple marijuana possession. ...
El Paso DA Turmoil Could Have Profound Immigrant-Rights Implications
The District Attorney of El Paso County, Texas, Yvonne Rosales, is decidedly non-progressive. When ...
The People Left Behind by Biden’s Cannabis Pardons
President Joe Biden’s surprise marijuana pardon action on October 6 has been widely praised ...
Biden Pardons All Federal Cannabis Possession Convictions
In a historic moment for drug policy reform in the United States, President Joe ...
New FBI Drug-Arrests Data Filled With Confusing Inconsistencies
The FBI has spent the past seven years and millions of tax dollars working ...
Largest-Ever Database of NYPD Misconduct Unveiled to Public
On October 3, the Legal Aid Society unveiled the largest public database of New ...
Don’t Brag About Hiring People With Criminal Records If You Ignore Those of Us With Felonies
The first thing employers are going to ask me when I get out of ...
A Bleak Outlook for Massachusetts’ 2022 Prosecutor Elections
The politics of prosecutors in Massachusetts this year is a complicated mess, but one ...
“Liberty Is Not What I Have”: Ashley Diamond Speaks to the Trans Women Still in Prison
In 2016, Ashley Diamond won a historic lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections ...
American Bar Association Calls for the Abolition of Life-Without-Parole
The life-without-parole sentence is barbaric. Decarceration activists call it “death by incarceration.” Pope Francis ...
