Skip navigation

Search

124 results
Page 5 of 7. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | Next »

Article • August 22, 2016
$4.9 Million Settlement for Family of Woman Killed in Drug Raid by The City of Atlanta has agreed to pay $4.9 million to the family of a woman who was killed during a botched drug raid. On November 21, 2006, Atlanta narcotics officers executed a “no-knock” warrant at the home …
Article • August 10, 2016
Report: Virginia's Prisons, Jails Overburdened by Nonviolent Drug Offenders by Joe Watson Virginia should decriminalize drug-related behavior and treat drug abuse as a public health issue, while increasing educational resources and opportunities in low-income communities of color in order to improve public safety and lower the state's prison population, according …
Article • August 10, 2016
Report Cites Drug War’s “Collateral Damage” by Derek Gilna A recent report issued by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has called for a “broad national initiative” to reverse what they termed “America’s infatuation with collateral consequences has produced unprecedented and unnecessary collateral damage to society and the …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population, Culpeper Foundation, 1998 Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population January 1998 Funded by: Charles E. Culpeper Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 500.C Table of Contents Glossary .......................................................................................................................... i Foreword ...................................................................................................................... iii I. Introduction and Executive Summary..................................................................... 1 Most Inmates …
Publication • August 9, 2016
The Vortex - The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties, Justice Policy Institute, 2007 The Vortex The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties A Justice Policy Institute Report December 2007 The Justice Policy Institute is a public policy …
Article • August 5, 2016
Federal and State Officers Face Liability for Framing Drug Defendants by The Sixth Circuit Court of appeals reversed an Ohio federal district court’s order that disposed of claims related to federal and state law enforcement officers framing two men on drug charges in Operation Turnaround. Before the court was the …
Jails Sell Prisoners E-Cigarettes, a Gateway to Drug Addiction by As jail officials across the country market e-cigarettes to prisoners at profit margins topping 400 percent, a new study suggests that these “pure nicotine-delivery devices” may actually be a “gateway drug” to cocaine and other serious drug addictions. E-cigarettes use …
History as Substance Abuser Influences Nation’s Drug Czar by David Reutter America’s drug czar is an alcoholic who is approaching his job differently than his predecessors. In leading the White House Office of National Drug Control, Michael Botticelli is following the Obama administration’s policy of shifting away from the “war …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Drug Violence in Mexico, Justice in Mexico Project Report, 2015 Drug Violence in Mexico Data and Analysis Through 2014 SPECIAL REPORT By Kimberly Heinle, Cory Molzahn, and David A. Shirk Justice in Mexico Project Department of Political Science & International Relations University of San Diego APRIL 2015 About Justice in …
Publication • August 3, 2016
America’s Problem-Solving Courts – The Criminal Cost of Treatment and the Case of Reform, NACDL, 2009 America’s Problem-Solving Courts: The Criminal Costs of Treatment and the Case for Reform N A T I O N A L A SS O C I A T I O N O F C …
White v. Watson, et al., IL, amended complaint, wrongful death, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00560-JPG-DGW Document 26 Filed 07/19/16 Page 1 of 16 Page ID #85 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS DWAYNE WHITE, as Administrator of the ESTATE OF BRADLEY C. SCARPI, Plaintiff, v. ST. …
Study Shows Modest Decline in Prison Populations by Derek Gilna A February 2016 study by The Sentencing Project, “U.S. Prison Population Trends 1999-2014: Broad Variation Among States in Recent Years,” found there has been a 2.9% average decline in the number of state prisoners during that period. Over those 15 …
Overcrowding at South Dakota Prison Impacts Family Visitation Program by A surge in female prisoners incarcerated on low-level drug charges led to the temporary shutdown of a program at the South Dakota Women’s Prison that helps prisoners maintain family ties and relationships. The Parent and Children Together (P.A.C.T.) program provides …
Human Rights Watch - Every 25 Seconds The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States, HRW ACLU, 2016 EVERY 25 SECONDS The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C …
Publication • 2016
The Sentencing Project - How Tough on Crime Became Tough on Kids, 2016 How Tough on Crime Became Tough on Kids: Prosecuting Teenage Drug Charges in Adult Courts For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject This …
DOJ Increases Budget Even as Americans Tire of Costs of Drug War by Derek Gilna Sometimes the federal government just can’t help itself.  At a time when the majority of Americans still feel that their country is headed in the wrong direction, and have expressed their weariness of the “war …
Former U.S. Attorney General’s Legacy: Too Little, Too Late by Derek Gilna The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s unanimous vote in April 2014 to reduce sentencing guidelines two levels for certain defendants convicted of nonviolent drug crimes was a major step in cutting the federal prison terms of both the newly-convicted and …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Professor Urges Study of Unintended Consequences of Court-ordered Prison Reform by Derek Gilna Prison reform, including reforms mandated by the judiciary, is an issue that everyone but shareholders in private prison companies thinks is a positive development, for a number of reasons. Even former advocates of mass incarceration now generally …
Publication • February 24, 2016
Collatoral Casualties - Children of Incarcerated Drug Offenders in NY, HRW, 2002 June 2002 Vol. 14, No. 3 (G) COLLATERAL CASUALTIES: Children of Incarcerated Drug Offenders in New York TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 2 II. New York Drug Laws: Who Goes to Prison ........................................................................................................ 3 III. Incarcerated Parents …
Publication • February 19, 2016
Targeting Blacks - Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the US, Human Rights Watch, 2008 United States H U M A N Targeting Blacks R I G H T S Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States W A T C H Targeting Blacks Drug Law Enforcement and …
Page 5 of 7. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | Next »