Washington Courts Still Struggle to Clear Old Drug Convictions
Relief delayed for WA residents convicted of simple drug possession before Feb 2021
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War On Drugs
Articles highlighting disparities, injustice, and mass incarceration directly related to America’s war to drugs.
Federal prisoners punished for using addiction medication
Congress told the Bureau of Prisons to make Suboxone and other medications widely available, but only a small fraction of those who need the help have received it.
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Incarceration and Poverty in the United States
Nearly half to of the incarcerated population in the United States are non-violent drug offenders, people who can not afford their bail, and those who have failed to pay debts or fines for minor infractions. Poverty has contributed greatly to America’s high rate of imprisonment, and has disproportionately affected minority populations.
This Roadside Drug Testing Program Got It Wrong 31% Of The Time… So It’s Being Expanded
A roadside drug testing pilot program finished and the analysis is in. According to the report published by the authorities who conducted the pilot, their drug testing results were wrong 31% of the time. Now the pilot program is being expanded.
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A Mother’s Troubled Journey Home From Prison
Redina Rodriguez is one of a dozen formerly incarcerated women taking part in a 10-week program called Women Working for a Change, run by the Philadelphia anti-violence group Mothers in Charge.
ACLU & HRW Call to Decriminalize Drug Use & Possession
A new report on the devastating harm of policies that criminalize the personal use and possession of drugs finds that in 2015 police booked more people for small-time marijuana charges than for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined.
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Grad Student Studying Drug Counselling Gets Life For Dismissed Possession Charge
Mosley was about to enter a halfway house and resume his studies when he was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for the reversed charge.
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50-Year War On Drugs Imprisoned Millions Of Black Americans
The deleterious impacts of the drug war have, for years, drawn calls for reform and abolition from mostly left-leaning elected officials and social justice advocates. Many of them say that in order to begin to unwind or undo the war on drugs, all narcotics must be decriminalized or legalized, with science-based regulation.
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Increasing Number Of Women Behind Bars
Women are the fastest growing group in the ever-expanding prison population. Sentencing laws have caused the number of women behind bars to explode, leaving in the rubble displaced children and overburdened families.
Biden Could Have Taken the War on Drugs Down a Notch. He Didn’t.
Biden extended a policy concerning “class-wide scheduling of fentanyl analogs.” The measure could land more low-level drug dealers in prison for longer and with less proof than is typically required.
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Houston Police End Use of Drug Tests That Helped Produce Wrongful Convictions
Virtually everyone in the criminal justice system – prosecutor, judges, lab scientists, defense lawyers – has had plenty of reason to know the tests are faulty. Courts in most states, in fact, bar the tests from being used in evidence in a criminal trial, saying the tests do not constitute forensic science.
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Washington Senate Replaces Drug Decriminalization Bill With Revised Measure To Reinstate Penalties
A bill that would have formally decriminalized drugs in Washington State was gutted on the Senate floor on Thursday, with lawmakers approving a dramatically revised version that instead reinstates criminal penalties following a state Supreme Court ruling that overturned prohibition.
Majority Of Americans Want Drug War Ended
More than 80 percent of Republicans, Democrats and Independents agree that the war on drugs has failed, according to a new nationwide poll of registered voters from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Drug Policy Alliance.
Biden ‘Exploring’ Clemency For Non-violent Federal Drug Crimes
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has announced that Biden is exploring the idea of granting clemency to people who are serving federal prison sentences for drug crimes.
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Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary
One of the Supreme Court’s most conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, said that because of the multitude of federal policies on marijuana, federal laws against its use or cultivation may no longer make sense.
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