Tag: race
Baltimore Prosecutors Have Been Inflating Charges for Black Defendants
Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of ...
Federal Life Sentences for Drugs: Unconscionable and Massively Biased
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a ...
Prosecutors Excluded Jurors for Being Black, NC Supreme Court Finds
Juries in the United States are not just 12 people selected at random. Instead, ...
Outrage at Biden Administration Caving to “Crack Pipes” Pressure
“Biden crime policy: Crack pipes for all. What could go wrong?” asked Texas Senator ...
Senate Candidate’s Blunt Ad on Drug-War Targeting of Black Louisianans
In 1992, then-presidential candidate and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton disclosed that he had experimented ...
New Vermont Bill Seeks to Decriminalize Drug Possession and Sharing
Vermont Democratic and Progressive lawmakers filed a new bill this week to decriminalize drug ...
The NYPD Operates With Near-Impunity, Finds NYCLU Report
The New York City Police Department ignored the disciplinary recommendations of its oversight board ...
How Key Early Ideas Helped Shape Today’s Harm Reduction Movement
[This article is excerpted from UNDOING DRUGS: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and ...
Baltimore Study Boosts Movements to Decriminalize Drugs and Sex Work
Replication is of paramount importance, in the sciences, in determining whether an earlier research ...
We Social Workers Should Remember Our Values and Stop Policing
In response to the murders of Black people by police, we have seen sweeping ...
