Tag: mass incarceration
Federal Legalization Still Wouldn’t Free All Cannabis Prisoners
“Tell everybody in this government that y’all need to let everybody out of jail ...
How Exactly Are Tablets Supposed to Solve Georgia’s Prisons Crisis?
On January 19, Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward deflected questions from the ...
ICE to Stop Holding Immigrants at Infamous Alabama Jail
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on March 25 that it will stop detaining ...
Federal Life Sentences for Drugs: Unconscionable and Massively Biased
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a ...
Pressure on Massachusetts to Ban Building of New Jails and Prisons
Families of incarcerated people are pressuring Massachusetts state lawmakers to pass a bill to ...
Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout ...
In Maximum Security Prison, the System Works to Deny Us Transfers
Since 2018, I have been incarcerated in a maximum security unit of Michigan’s Baraga ...
WA Prisons Expanded Gradual Reentry. COVID Is an Excuse to Block Us.
In 2018, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) implemented a Graduated Reentry (GRE) ...
What’s Motivating the DA Charging a Minor With Drug-Induced Homicide?
After taking office in 2011, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen helped lead ...
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Rapidly Backpedals on Radical Reforms
Alvin Bragg, a former state and federal prosecutor, won the competitive 2021 Manhattan district ...
