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1.5 million people with serious mental illness were arrested. While in many cases their offenses were directly related to their mental health condition, they were treated as criminals. As a result ...
ineffectual at eliminating the drug market21 and considered by many to be an economic disaster,22 the War on Drugs has fueled disproportionate arrests of people of color, especially women of color.23 Women ...
Publication • February 11, 2016
we know that people who are currently or formerly incarcerated often have difficulty getting legal information, and we cannot provide specific advice to every person who requests it. The laws change ...
Publication • September 1, 2018
, the friends of the people, the coworkers of the people, who have abused you,” Block said. “It’s a dark place, for everybody. And they’re not getting the type of treatment that they need …So it’s just ...
Publication • September 1, 2018
, the friends of the people, the coworkers of the people, who have abused you,” Block said. “It’s a dark place, for everybody. And they’re not getting the type of treatment that they need …So it’s just ...
Publication • August 1, 2017
, people with substance use disorders who get treatment through the criminal justice system are still treated as criminals, and the symptoms of their illness punished as if the illness itself were a crime ...
in the criminal prosecution of Ethan Couch, a Texas teenager who killed four people and injured two others while driving drunk, psychologist G. Dick Miller said, “I wish I hadn’t used that term ...
Publication • November 2, 2015
Filed under: HRDC Publications
employment was nine weeks less and their annual income was 40% less. Over 623,000 individuals were released from prisons alone in 2013, people who desperately need to get back into the workforce but are often ...
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state or county prisoners, they are released after a few weeks, months, or years. These people will reenter society, and it is important that they receive treatment while in prison so they can get jobs ...
Article • September 6, 2016
Man Detained in Dallas Jail without Trial Longer Than Maximum Sentence by Matthew Clarke A man who was arrested for criminal trespass spent 200 days in the Dallas County Jail awaiting a court ...
in Illinois, I worked with a coalition of people to get a bill through the state legislature that would have banned the use of electronic monitors on anyone who came out of the state prison system except ...
Brief • September 21, 2015
Filed under: Money/Property
themselves the signatures of judges without first presenting any information to the judge or even notifying the judge.1 The Defendants use their unconstitutional scheme of arresting and jailing people ...
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Filed under: Organizing, Prison Reform
. In an effort to get guns off the street, the St. Louis Police Department conducted home searches of young people previously arrested on gun charges – with the consent of their parents and a pledge not to make ...
Brief • December 16, 2023
Filed under: GPS Tracking Device
, the constant fear of being arrested for technical violations, the financial cost, physical pain, and social stigma all make it difficult for people on monitors to lead productive, healthy and selfsufficient ...
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
when they were children. At what point do the sexually abused cease being victims and become criminals? When they are arrested? Getting beyond the defining of who is an official victim and who isn't ...
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners
people with some type of disability.21 Black youth and young adults with a disability have a 55 percent chance of being arrested compared to 37 percent for those without a disability.22 While the United ...
, you should make sure these people keep that evidence or share it with you. If you need to track down evidence or witnesses, it is a good idea to get a lawyer to help you. Don't talk about the incident ...
and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP). In prison, people call it the jail. It's much more restrictive, and a lot of trans folks in prison get put there & simply because the prisons don't know how to take care ...
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by California: On October 6, 2011, a San Quentin warehouse supervisor was fired following his arrest on suspicion of conspiracy, requesting or accepting bribes, and smuggling ...
Article • August 23, 2016
to be treated like dogs," Carranza-Reyes recalls. "He said, 'Don't forget when you get out of here to call the Mexican consulate and tell them how they are treating us.' There were people who had been ...
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