Tag: mass incarceration
Biden: “We’re Working on” Fulfilling Pledge to Free Marijuana Prisoners
President Joe Biden says his administration is “working on” plans to fulfill his campaign ...
A Pandemic of Anxiety in Prison
For several months, the country’s COVID cases have been in a relative downtrend. In ...
Does Gun Control Have to Mean a “War on Guns”?
On June 25, President Biden signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the ...
Out Early From a 15-Year Carfentanil Sentence, Her Next Fight Begins
Wendy Kraus-Heitmann has had a hard life, but one that someone could write a ...
Prison Didn’t Rehabilitate Me, But Using Meth in Prison Did
It’s ironic in retrospect that drugs were part of why I went to prison, ...
Lifers, Lab Rats and the Mandatory Minimums Experiment
In the 1950s, John’s Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments ...
Why Allowing Only Prison-Issue Cell Phones Hurts Our Reentry Prospects
The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is no longer allowing prisoners on work release ...
Judge Orders County to Offer OUD Meds to All Jailed Patients, in US First
A New York district judge has ordered upstate Jefferson County to offer medication for ...
Traumatized Veterans Who Use Drugs Left to Suffer in Prison
About seven years ago, the Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated for the ...
Is the “Progressive Prosecutor” Movement on Its Last Legs?
Once upon a time, Milwaukee elected Frank Zeidler, the last socialist mayor of a ...
