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What do you do with addicts who commit crimes? What about drug treatment?
What to do about drug addicts? Lock them up, let them out and watch them commit more crimes? Newsweek has a great article this week arguing that the costs of treating drug addiction in prison saves...
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The Drug War & Civil Rights: ‘The New Jim Crow’
Has the War on Drugs replaced Jim Crow laws as the way to control blacks and other minorities in America? Civil rights scholar Michelle Alexander, an Ohio State University law professor, argues this...
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Marijuana use is up. So are arrests. What now?
Drug warriors: start your tsk-tsking. A federal government report out today shows that illicit drug use, especially of marijuana, went up in 2009. And who’s to blame? The media, cancer patients and...
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Profit vs. justice: Private prisons, SB1070 & the hijacking of criminal justice
NPR today reported a disturbing tale about how private prison lobbyists helped to craft and push for Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB1070, to help pad their bottom lines. If you haven’t...
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Zoraya’s Story: Drug court offers treatment & hope
A row of plastic coins in silver, red, orange and green are affixed along the side of a mirror in Zoraya Arias’ bathroom at the Center for Hope treatment center in Mesa. There are nine of them – one...
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