Tag: drug courts

    South Dakota Considers Defelonizing Drug Ingestion

    South Dakota might change a drug law that makes it an outlier in the ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the “Choice” of Court-Ordered Drug Treatment

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the famed anti-vaxxer poised to take over the United States ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    Drug Courts Don’t Just Force People Into Treatment. They Deny Us, Too.

    Standing in the courtroom as I awaited sentencing, the light tapping of the stenographer ...

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    Ryan Moser

    WA Drug Penalties Uncertain as Legislature Adjourns in Stalemate

    On April 23, Washington state lawmakers ended the current legislative session still in limbo ...

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    Jonathan Kirkpatrick

    How Drug Courts Keep You in Prison, Even Without Drug-Related Charges

    In 2016, Larry Vessey Jr. was sentenced to 58 months in the custody of ...

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    Jonathan Kirkpatrick

    Court-Ordered Into AA? You Could Use The Satanic Temple Instead.

    Two-and-a-half years after a bad relationship left her homeless, and 16 months after Child ...

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    Kastalia Medrano

    The Influential HOPE Probation Program Is Badly Misnamed

    Last month, a woman won $7 million in a federal court in Hawaii against ...

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    Rory Fleming

    What Drugs, Sex Work and One Key Case Mean for the Baltimore DA Race

    In 2018, attorney Ivan Bates ran against incumbent Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and ...

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    Rory Fleming

    Can Harm Reduction Reform the Drug Courts?

    Among prohibitionists and proponents of the drug war, drug courts are touted as a ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman