Biden’s recent budget request includes $355 million in additional funding for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Prisons
Twenty-two-year-old Leah Eggleson is facing a 20-to-life sentence for defending herself against her abuser.
Survivors of violence face double persecution: first at the hands of abusers, and then at the hands of the legal system.
Javon Kennerson was one of dozens to die in LaSalle Corrections custody from lack of or delayed medical treatment.
Letters are a source of hope. Policies banning physical mail are yet another attack on incarcerated people.
Two years into the pandemic, prisons are still using torturous conditions over depopulating prisons to stop the spread.
“The Sentences That Create Us” is a how-to-write manual pitched perfectly for incarcerated people who want to write.
“These folks inside have had enough,” says organizer Brooke Terpsta.
At its worst, the First Step Act further reinforces the discriminatory nature of the U.S. criminal legal system.
Thousands of people were forced to consume arsenic-laced water for years at Kern Valley State Prison.