mass incarceration

Hundreds of Drug War Prisoners in WA Can Now Apply for Commutation

The governor of Washington State on Monday unveiled a new process through which hundreds of people with low-level drug convictions…

August 17, 2021

White House: Biden Considering Clemency for Nonviolent Federal Drug Convictions

President Joe Biden is looking into using his executive authority to grant clemency to people with certain non-violent drug convictions,…

August 13, 2021

Missouri POs Sending People to Prison for Being Medical Marijuana Patients

On June 23, 29-year-old Ray Breer walked through the gates of the Western Reception Diagnostic Correctional Center north of Kansas…

July 22, 2021

In Seeking Rural Reform Prosecutors to “Uplift,” Don’t Set the Bar Too Low

Saying the criminal-legal system is a system like saying a forest is a tree. There are over 2,000 local criminal…

July 20, 2021

Gwen Levi and the “Sentencing Goals” That Shouldn’t Apply

Around 90 percent of criminal cases are handled by county court systems, where inflexibility on disproportionately harsh sentencing outcomes is…

July 12, 2021

Biden Vows to End Racist Crack Cocaine Sentencing That He Helped Establish

The Biden administration has again voiced support for ending a law that punishes possession or distribution of crack cocaine far…

June 24, 2021

Alvin Bragg Likely to Be Manhattan’s Next DA: What Are the Implications?

The Democratic primary for Manhattan’s next district attorney was a big mess. Leading up to the June 22 election, there…

June 23, 2021

What Would It Have Taken to “Stop Singas”?

On June 8, reporter Sam Mellins tweeted a photo of a January 6, 1999 letter from then-Queens Assistant District Attorney…

June 16, 2021

First All-Drug Decriminalization Bill to Be Introduced in Congress

On June 15, ahead of the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s declaration of the “War on Drugs,” Democratic Representatives Bonnie Watson…

June 15, 2021

Prosecutors Don’t Just Enforce Laws—They Lobby Hard to Make Them

Prosecutors are famous for saying they don’t make the law, they only enforce it. In recent years, prominent legal scholars…

June 10, 2021