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State Supreme Court Justice Just Called For The Release Of All Those In...
By Justin Gardner Amid the seemingly constant bad news about rising international tensions and the crushing police/surveillance state at home, one bright spot remains. Cannabis decriminalization keeps...
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About 3800 People Are Jailed In New York For The Crime Of Being Poor
By Dawn Luger Every day of 2016, New York City held an average of 7,633 people in jail for pretrial detention. Pretrial detention means that these are people who have yet to be convicted of any crime,...
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After 25 Years In Prison, Man Is Finally Free After Being Framed By Detroit PD
By Dawn Luger After being locked up in prison for 25 years, the entire time claiming he was framed by the Detroit police department, a man finally gets to taste his freedom. New tests have absolved...
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France To Effectively Decriminalize Cannabis By Ending Prison Terms
By Anna Hunt The French government is about to make some drastic changes to the enforcement of cannabis use laws. A government spokesperson revealed that by the end of 2017, France will end all prison...
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Is California Replacing Its “Prison-Industrial Complex” With Something Worse?
By Sarah Cronin California made headlines last week when Governor Jerry Brown allocated a record $11.4 billion to the state’s corrections department in his May Revision to the budget, translating to...
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Mainstream Media Now Advocating “All Citizens” Spend Time in Prison as...
By Claire Bernish Corporate media achieved a new level of absurdity last week, when Jesse Ball, writing for the Los Angeles Times, suggested every American be required to spend a stint behind bars...
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Jeff Sessions to Revive D.A.R.E. to Hook More Kids on Drugs and Bolster...
By Claire Bernish In his sanctimonious quest to revive the laughably inept war on drugs, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions now champions this stellar plan: resuscitate the interventionist prevention...
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Tennessee Jails Offer Inmates Shorter Sentences In Exchange For Sterilization
By Dawn Luger In an effort to make sure those deemed “unworthy” of reproduction by the government do not reproduce, one Tennessee county is offering a reduced sentence to inmates who undergo...
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War on the Poor: Jeff Sessions Rescinds Legal Doc That Ended Debtors’ Prisons
By Rachel Blevins In addition to his “War on Cannabis,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently revealed that he is also in favor of a “War on Poverty,” when he rescinded a legal guidance document that...
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App That Crowdsources Bail Lets Anyone Help Disrupt America’s Mass Incarceration
By Carey Wedler The United States is known for having one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, fueled by the Drug War, a bought-off justice system, and the ever-flourishing...
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Disturbing Precedent: Mother Sterilized As Court Hands Down Order...
By Matt Agorist At the request of an Oklahoma court, a mother of seven has been sterilized as part of a judge’s order, setting a damning precedent in the process. Summer Thyme Creel, 34, had the...
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Thousands of People in Only One State have Been in Jail for Over a YEAR and...
By Jack Burns Nearly half a million Americans are currently being held in jail while they are denied their constitutional right to a speedy trial. The problem has become so pervasive that many critics...
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E-Waste Recycler Sentenced To Over A Year In Prison For Fixing Old PCs and...
By John Vibes Computer technician and E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren is going to prison for 15 months for selling restore disks for computers, which would extend their longevity and allow them to be...
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Wrongfully Imprisoned for 31 Years, and THIS is Considered Justice?
By Joe Jarvis After spending over three decades in prison for a crime he did not commit, Lawrence McKinney was cleared of the charges in 2008 after DNA evidence was tested. It took another year for the...
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Police State Defined—Man Facing Jail Time For Overdue $5 Movie Rental
By Rachel Blevins Tulsa, OK – A man who never returned the copy of the movie Ted he rented for $5 from a local store in 2014 was contacted by police and threatened with jail time if he did not pay the...
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Why Indefinite Detention Is Un-American
By Stewart Jones June 15th, 2018, marked the 803 anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a monumental moment for the advancement of liberty. Due process and trial by jury remain to be some of...
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California City Lays Down The Straw, Banning Use With Jail Time
By Aaron Kesel A city in California has bizarrely passed a law that bans the distribution of or sale of plastic straws, with the harsh penalty of a business or employee giving them out being jail time....
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Lawmaker Proposes Implanting Microchips in People to Track Non-Violent...
By John Vibes Toledo, Ohio – This Tuesday, Toledo City Councilman Rob Ludeman suggested that criminals be implanted with microchips so they can be tracked by police and the courts. Ludeman also made...
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UK’s Private Prison System Has A Disturbing Track Record
By Georgina Milner 14 private prisons currently exist in the UK and the government seems set to follow the USA’s example and expand the system. It can be considered morally wrong to profit from the...
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Mainstream Media Now Advocating “All Citizens” Spend Time in Prison as...
By Claire Bernish Corporate media achieved a new level of absurdity last week, when Jesse Ball, writing for the Los Angeles Times, suggested every American be required to spend a stint behind bars...
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