Jail, prison populations rise 2.6 percent
21-May-2006, United States, CNN
More than 1,000 inmates were added to the nation's prisons and jails each week from June 2004 to June 2005, according to a report issued Sunday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The 56,428 new inmates -- including both convicts and those ...
The Rockefeller Drug Laws?
04-April-2006, United States, Blogger News Network
[As NY Governor, Nelson Rockefeller pressed for draconian punishments for the sale and/or possession of drugs on the mistakened assumption that these would deter drug sales. They did not. But the upshot was that many a younger person ended up ...
Drug War or Race War?
13-March-2006, United States, New Haven Independent
It's been 10 years since Sheldon Tucker saw the inside of a prison. Tucker (at right in photo, with criminal defense attorney Norm Pattis, at left) and others at a local forum on the drug war spoke about why so many young people of color have ...
Ads in Montana Battle Methamphetamine
26-February-2006, United States, The New York Times
The camera follows the teenager as she showers for her night out and looks down to discover the drain swirling with blood. She turns and sees her methamphetamine-addicted self cowering below, oozing from scabs she has picked all over her body ...
'Legalising drugs would halve prisoner numbers'
15-December-2005, United Kingdom, icBerkshire
READING probation officer Bob Turney says it is time to stop pouring billions of pounds into a never-ending war against drugs and open a hysteria-free debate about legalisation.
His job offers him an insight into the criminal underworld because ...
Marijuana: A Pointless But Ending War
21-November-2005, United States, The Knight News
Back in my supermarket days as a stock boy, a coworker gave me an anecdote about how he was getting high with his friends at a deserted rail yard. Two police officers appeared suddenly, so the kids languidly tried to hide their joints behind their ...
Former judge calls drug war a 'failure'
17-November-2005, United States, Sierra Times
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina should consider decriminalizing illegal drugs as it tries to stem the need for additional prisons, a former state Supreme Court chief justice said Monday.
Burley Mitchell, the state's top judge from 1995 to 1999, ...
Hostage Mom Exposes Drug War Double Standard
30-September-2005, United States, AlterNet
Last March, Atlanta hostage Ashley Smith got a rousing cheer from public officials, law enforcement, and much of the media for cajoling accused rampage shooter Brian Nichols to give himself up. Smith deserved the praise. It took courage, compassion, ...
Hallucinating stars and stripes
13-September-2005, United Kingdom, Hallucinating stars and stripes
The party was definitely over. It was 1989 when George Bush Sr held up a bag of crack-cocaine, seized "in a park just across the street" from the White House, and formally declared war on drugs. Thanks to a media obsessed with crack babies and ...
Smoked Out
12-September-2005, United States, AlterNet
In a November 2002 letter to the nation's prosecutors, the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) didn't bother beating around the proverbial bush. "No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana," began the letter from Scott ...
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