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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 ...
WA Drug Penalties Uncertain as Legislature Adjourns in Stalemate
On April 23, Washington state lawmakers ended the current legislative session still in limbo ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Influential HOPE Probation Program Is Badly Misnamed
Last month, a woman won $7 million in a federal court in Hawaii against ...
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 ...
Can Harm Reduction Reform the Drug Courts?
Among prohibitionists and proponents of the drug war, drug courts are touted as a ...
