Bill O'Reilly Shouts Dumb Stuff About the Drug War Again
Bill O'Reilly recently on his program unloads with prohibitionist cliches and shows an utter lack of understanding and empathy.
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Private Prisons and Politicians: Destroying Our Nation for $
Private prisons and politicians have turned the United States into a prison nation, simply for greed. Check out these sobering statistics.
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Commentary: The Racial Politics of Pot Arrests
Though marijuana is still illegal in most places, the racial disparity in pot busts paints a clear picture of two different Americas.
DOJ to Sentencing Commission: Fewer Prisoners, Please
The US Department Of Justice (DOJ) said continuing increases in the number of federal prisoners and spending are "unsustainable."
Mitchell Lawrence | Age 18 | Berkshire County, MA | March 2006
Guest Editorial: Injustice in Massachusetts — Two Years in Jail for One Joint 4/14/06 by Anthony Papa of 15yearstolife.com The drug war reached the pinnacle of cruelty when Mitchell Lawrence, an 18-year-old…
NJ Governor Christie Is an Enigma on War on Drugs
Am I alone in being puzzled by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s stance on the war on drugs? Yesterday while speaking at the Brookings Institution , Christie said “…the war on drugs,…
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War On Drugs is "The Worst Bad Solution"
Don Winslow writes a wonderfully stinging piece on the utter failure that is the War on Drugs in America with its destructive and checkered history. Check out the “The Worst Bad Solution”…
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Statistics & Economics of Our Prison Nation
Great article, Prison Nation: Economic reasons to legalize marijuana , on the failed war on drugs and the cost of being a prison nation. Two of my favorite numbers “The number of…