In what may be the largest dismissal of wrongful convictions in US history, Massachusetts will throw out 21,587 criminal drug cases.
Drug War
Trump could shift the focus from public health to the prison cell.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is attempting to shake up policing in the country.
Congress is considering bills to protect legal marijuana from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The two ICE officers who coerced Cruz Marcelino Velazquez Acevedo into killing himself remain on the force today.
Prohibition heightens the power of the police, and Sessions seems reluctant to give that up.
In the shadow of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Black families are ripped apart by mass incarceration.
Despite Trump’s contempt for the clemency initiative, families of the incarcerated will continue their campaigns.
Congress is helping Gov. Scott Walker and others expand policies that punish poor people for drug use.
The words coming from the White House, whether as tweets or executive orders are full of racialized criminal imagery.