Report Finds Thousands in the US Jailed for Life Over Nonviolent Offences
Report finds thousands in the US jailed for life over nonviolent offences
The recent findings by the ACLU features key statistics about non-violent prisoners, an analysis of the laws that produced their sentences, and case studies of 110 men and women serving these sentences. Of the 3,278 prisoners, 79 percent were convicted …
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Mojo – November 2013
was arrested on cocaine possession charges in DC last month and is scheduled for arraignment Wednesday. … He was arrested in DC, which has a special drug court that is designed to funnel low-level addicts into rehab rather than long-term jail time …
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World's First Recreational Marijuana Sales License Issued In Colorado
By law, adults can possess up to an ounce of pot, can grow as many as six marijuana plants at home (with only three flowering at any given time), but home-grown marijuana can only be for personal use and cannot be sold. However, adults can gift one …
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Drug use survey 2014: tell us what you take
But governments rarely collect statistics on other types of drugs – how they make people feel, how much they spend and what, if anything, they do to stay safe. So, in 2011, Mixmag, a dance music magazine teamed up with Dr Adam Winstock, an addictions …
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