Guest Commentary: Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts
By Miriam Krinsky and Leo Beletsky Drug overdoses dramatically rose during the pandemic to make 2020 our…
By Miriam Krinsky and Leo Beletsky Drug overdoses dramatically rose during the pandemic to make 2020 our…
By Elina Lingappa and Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office is…
By Avalon Amaral and Mia Machado After a decade of insufficient and incohesive decarceration efforts, the current…
The war on drugs has failed, and Americans on the right and left are ready for it…
By Dalia Bautista Rodriguez SACRAMENTO – Incarceration for simple drug possession could soon end – or at…
By Taylor Pendergrass Criminal justice reform was a key issue in Tuesday night’s elections, from the presidential…
By Tiffany Devlin As the Covid-19 pandemic heavily impacted jails, prisons, and courts across the United…
Under current law, certain drug offenses in California carry with them mandatory jail and prison sentences. On…
by Hadi Razzaq San Francisco has historically responded to street-level drug activity in the same way: periodically…
By Charlotte Resing Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds…
By Sagiv Galai In his 636 days in office, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions secured a legacy…
By Ezekiel Edwards Patrick Beadle, a 46-year-old father and musician, received an eight-year prison sentence in Mississippi…
By Kanya Bennett While the House was busy passing the divisive “empty gesture” known as the Protect and Serve…
By Jesselyn McCurdy The majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana. The Marijuana Justice Act will do just…
By Ezekiel Edwards A new report from The Sarasota-Herald Tribune has found that drug enforcement in Florida…
The Marshall Project reported on Friday that from 2000-2015 the rate of incarceration for black men fell…
(From press release) – The American Civil Liberties Union Campaign for Smart Justice released new public opinion…
By Andy Hoover The war on marijuana continues to rage in Pennsylvania. Despite slow progress in loosening…
The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office has announced a series of raids against allegedly illegal marijuana growers in…
Supervisor Matt Rexroad offers some thoughtful commentary on opioid abuse in an op-ed in the Woodland paper…